tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 11 08:24:51 2004
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Re: an answer which is no answer
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: an answer which is no answer
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:24:09 -0400
In a message dated 5/11/2004 8:06:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
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> In a message dated 2004-05-11 5:22:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, SuStel writes:
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> > Express the concept.
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> as always, the question is "how?". my concepts almost always start out in
> english. translation of that english is my first attempt
> at "expressing the
> concept".
>
> lay'tel SIvten
One thing I have found as time goes by is that, as I get more
and more comfortable with Klingon grammar, my _English_
thoughts start out closer to what's available in Klingon
(when I'm translating!). If you could read my mind when I'm
writing Klingon, you'd hear a sort of "pidgin" language:
English words, but with a very Klingon syntax. I don't often
get caught in the "how would you say this English phrase"
trap, because I've pre-arranged the Klingon equivalent as
I composed the English.
-- ter'eS
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