tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 30 19:49:44 2001
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Re: Dictionary Programs?
"...Paul" <[email protected]> writes:
>I'm sure there's one out there... So can anyone recommend a Windows
>utility for assisting in the translation of Klingon to English and
>vice-versa?
I cannot recommend *any* computerized translation utility for casual use.
They're entirely too convenient for a beginning student's own good. :-)
I started using one a year or so after I began learning to speak Klingon,
and found that my progress in gaining vocabulary came to a complete halt.
I eventually threw away my copy of mu' HaqwI' and started looking words up
in a printed dictionary again. It was only after I felt confident of my
ability to converse without a dictionary that I let myself use a
computer-based one again, and then mostly as the equivalent of a Klingon
"spell-checker". For that, I think d'Armond's {pojwI'} is quite useful.
(I actually prefer my own custom Klingon word-analysis program, since it
works with a lexicon that's a simple export from my carefully-maintained
vocabulary database.)
For "casual" use, my Palm dictionary is always with me now, but I still
force myself to look up the occasional unfamiliar word in TKD itself when
it's within reach. I don't have any sort of "mass translation" tool on my
home computer at the moment.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh