tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 07 17:21:40 2000
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Re: KLIC: UserFriendly translation
ja' "Albertus A. Arendsen" <[email protected]>:
>...I've been doing Klingon UF translations for a few
>days, and this one is clearly the worst one I've done so far. The
>English was simply too eloquent, and that level of eloquence simply
>doesn't convey to Klingon without forcing all sorts of grammatical
>rules, or without breaking up the original wording completely.
The solution is, of course, to break up the original wording completely.
Eloquence does not translate directly. What is considered eloquent in
English usually comes across in Klingon as excessively wordy. Eloquence in
Klingon is typified by subtle use of suffixes, and occasionally by
unobvious but perfectly appropriate choice of vocabulary.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh