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Re: Klingon Encyclopedia

Lieven L. Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon Encyclopedia
• Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:10:18 +0200
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> Have you ever heard of the Klingon Encyclopedia?
> Now it's real and you can contribute!
> It has now 55 articles and is getting bigger.

great thing. But please PLEASE do not use your own transliterations!

I found the following:
{jav Sep'a'mey ghajtaH tera'. 'amerIqa, yu'rop, 'avrIqa, 'eySa, 'aStlhelIya 
'antarghtIqa}

I think that's not canon.
Of course it's possible to recognize what is meant here, but it's obvious 
that an english speaker made these, so it's a) not klingon and b) not 
international.

A frenchman might render this as
lamerIq, lIrop, lavrIq, laSIy, loStIralIy

and a German thinks of
'amerIqa, 'oyrop'a', 'avrIyqa', 'aSyen, 'awSutralyen

Briefly, everyone tranliterates a word differently, so it's better not to 
do it at all.
And besides of that, a beginner might wonder what *yu'rop* might be: 
interrogate-sick?

More generally spoken about transliterations, no matter if in english once 
says "egypt" and in German it's "Ägypten", the arabic word for it is 
"Misr".

Quvar.

• References:
  • Klingon Encyclopedia
    • From: "Clayton Cardoso" <[email protected]>

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