tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 08 09:12:40 1999
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Re: Palm Pilot
In a message dated 8/8/99 3:29:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected]
writes:
<< > ja' tu'loD:
>
> I prefer the WinCE machines, if only for the mini-Office apps and
familiarity
> to windows, and a keyboard. Even the ones without a keyboard are cool,
since
> they play mp3's and are in color. But I would like to see a Palm Pilot
> Klingon Translator sometime ('ej toch tlhIngan mu'ghom vIlegh vIneH). maj.
>
Ms. Pillow's 2 cents:
I <muSHa'> my Palm Pilot. The verb/noun list is on a simple database
program
with a really nice "search" function. All the prefix/suffix charts, pronoun
and
conjunction list are on little laminated cards. I keep TKD handy, but I'm
hoping
to figure out how to type those all-important first 74 pages somewhere into
my
little Pocket Brain.
It is tempting to consider buying a new PDA to accommodate a translation
program. But besides the price, I have other reservations. I see my Palm
Pilot as
an alternative to lugging around a cobbled together mass of torn apart
paperbacks
and printouts of the newer words. It's just smaller and more convenient. I
still
have to do all the "work" of translation. if I was using a translation
gizmo, I
don't think I could ever learn the language. If Santa gave me one for
Christmas,
I'd probably break down and use it, but that possibility is remote. I'll
probably
get my usual lump of anthracite. pItlh.
>>
That's probably all I need, is an up-to-date database, like my current Excel
spreadsheet, with search ability. I'm figuring out how to type in the TKD
and all the various addendum to it and usage notes into a complete Word
Document right now, but it's taking a while (First the TKD, then TKDA, then
figure out where to put all the various new tidbits in-between). I wish I
had those magic laminated cards. I never remember all my prefixes. :(
T'Lod