tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 16 14:05:49 1999
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Re: jIQeHqu'/ KLBC
ja' pIl'o':
>ps: how can I express the concepts of nausea, asthma, migrane and increasing a
>possible future risk of anaphylaxis, using tlhIngan mu'mey?
My usual answer to questions like this is another question. How can you
express these concepts without using the words "nausea", "asthma", etc.?
Pretend you're explaining them to someone with a kindergarten vocabulary
and try to choose words you *do* know how to say in Klingon. Jargon has
this kind of problem no matter what languages are involved; Klingon just
lacks a lot of medical terminology in the first place. :-)
How many "people on the street" know what anaphylaxis is anyhow? Having
had my face puff up a little due to shrimp on a couple of occasions, I'm
probably a bit closer to the issue than the average Joe or Jane...
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh