tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 23 08:26:05 1998
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Okrand: Re: Need to know some words (fwd)
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Okrand: Re: Need to know some words (fwd)
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:25:45 -0600 (CST)
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From: Marc Okrand <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: startrek.expertforum
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 21:16:43 -0500
Subject: Re: Need to know some words
Thanks for the nice words about the books.
For people new to the language, it's important to remember
(as DloraH pointed out) that there's often not a
one-for-one equivalence between Klingon words and English
words. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to express
some particular idea in one language or the other; it's
just that you have to get at what you mean in a different
way. It may be that what's an individual word in one
language is expressed by a phrase or a suffix or something
in another.