tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 18 12:21:02 1997

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Re: German "TKD" and its problems

I just bought DOW because I couldn't stand not knowing about what you're
talking.
I wanted to know if it's really so bad. No. It's worse. 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

This book looks like it has been made during ten minutes. chaq mughtaHvIS
chech mughwI'?
It starts on the first page already! (learn to speak...)

word       pronunciation
{nuqneH} = *noqneq*
{Do'Ha'} = *Do-qa*
{jIyajbe'} = *yIyaybe*
{pIch vIghajbe'} = *pIH vIghaybe*
{HIjol} = *qI'yol*
He did not change the pronunciation explanation in the expression section,
which was made for english speaking people (like NOOK in english is
pronounced nuq, but not in German). Instead he explained how to read the
rough pronunciation! He said: "OO is said like u"; "Y is like german Ei" etc.
The worst part of the book is "useful klingon expresions". Just look at this:

tlhIngan Hol vliatlhHbe'
*nIn 'arwLghaj*
*qo'*
*hijol*
*duj zIvoqtaH*
*qalpa'*
*ha'DLbaH*
*[...] qtbogh loD*
*naDev vo'yIghoS*
*ghtlh vIghtlhla'bogh DalaD'a'*
Last and least: *nuq Daq yuch Dapol*
No errors? What about the translation? Where have you put my chocolate?
Or look at this: qumwI'wIj vItu'mIv vam Confused? look at the line after this
one.

Maybe you have noticed that there are no { ' } around here. Right. almost the
whole book uses accents as glottal stop!!! { ' } In some parst of the book
there are apostrophes. (?)

the prefix {0} for no object is an "o"

*qatkh*: guess what this is.(hint: on the german keyboard, the K is next to
the L)

6.2.1: {jISoptaH 'ach QongtaH} "I'm eating, but s/he is eating". Aha. The
previous line is correct.

5.4: {wej} "not yet" is translated as "nicht jetzt"=not now (faux ami!)

J is next to H, so we get *ghjaytan*. Z is next toT, so we get *SutlhzaHvIS*

I think the translator does not know klingon, since he took over the "gan"
typo from the addendum!

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