tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 19 15:22:38 1996
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Re: Klingon & Terran languages
- From: Adam Walker <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon & Terran languages
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 17:21:48 -0600
- Organization: Dallas Baptist University
> Date sent: 17-Feb-96 12:37:35 -0600
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> Subject: Klingon & Terran languages
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 ~mark wrote:
>
> >>> On that note I have proposed/considered translating
> >>> "Whats up?" as {chay' bIghoS}. Literally "You do you proceed?"
> >>> But feedback from others indicated that it's a bit ambigous and
> >>> idiomatic.
>
> >Trouble with idioms is that there's no real way to say how they should be.
> >We know Klingon has idioms (ghIchwIj DabochmoHchugh, ghIchlIj qanob, etc),
> >but we should expect them to be KLINGON idioms. If we blithely model them
> >on English, we're creating a code of English, not Klingon. There's no
> >reason that "go" should mean anything to do with the process of life and
> >everyday experience. It does in English (and French). But why should it
> >be the basis of an idiom in Klingon?
> I would assume that, since this concept is not associated with "go" terms in
> all Terran languages (in Hebrew, it would be "ma nishmah?"--what's been
> heard? or "ma inyanim"--what are the issues?) that we could not make any
> universal assumptions.
>
And in Latvian its "Ka klaias" (sp?) or "How is your bed making
itself?" Now THAT'S an idiom! *LOL* {{:-)
Qapla'
mu'vaj.