[Tlhingan-hol] maj po

[Robyn Stewart]

They have a standard list of phrases that they translate for every 
language.  I don't know how it works in languages where the words for 
"good morning" vary with the relative social status of the 
participants in the conversation, but Marc was forced to put 
something in that box. I hoped fervently as I hovered my mouse over 
that phrase that the result of clicking would be stony silence from 
the little models and an explanation that such phrases do not exist 
in Klingon, but the model forces all languages to that mold.

Think of it as in line with <'IH jaj, qar'a'?> or "Prithee good 
gentle husbands": something that it is possible to say in the 
language but that no sane native speaker would use except in jest.

I promise you there are some better finds.

At 10:52 03/10/2011, you wrote:
>maj po?
>
>The new app lists {maj po} for "good morning"?
>
>wejpuH.
>
>pItlh
>lojmIt tI'wI'nuv
>
>
>
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