[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Bible nonsense

[Felix Malmenbeck]

I don't know how many different people and factoid app makers I've contacted to explain that there is no complete and proper translation.

While the translation is incorrect and has led to some misunderstanding, it is - from what I understand - the product of a more serious project by an experienced klingonist, and he is very up-front about the fact that it's not a proper translation (but, of course, few people read disclaimers).

It would be fun to reboot the project. Perhaps we could create a wiki so that anybody can go in and contribute at their leisure, similar to what's being done with the LOLcat Bible translation project?
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From: Lieven Litaer [lieven.litaer at web.de]
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 15:11
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Bible nonsense

We all know that there is a Klingon bible translation project.
We all know that it is not yet finished.

But did you know there is a crappy nonsense automatic software
translation available?

At amazon it looks like a lot promising on the firt sight:

"The Klingon Language Version of the World English Bible Psalms"
by Joel Anderson

But when you read the description, you get this:
[...]  serves as a demonstration of what a complete Klingon Bible would
look like. [...]  Though it is not a grammatical Klingon text (actually
it is more of a pidgin-Klingon, mixing English vocabulary and grammar
with Klingon) it does provide vocabulary which can be used in doing a
proper Klingon translation.

I bought it anyway, to see it. Here is the crap you get to read:

    "And save me for your loving kindness sake"
    *je toD jIH vaD lIj muSHa'taH kindness chIch*

With other words: it's useless. I just had to mention it.

Lieven.

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