[Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)

[Lieven Litaer]

Am 05.08.2012 10:38, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:

> However, in Joel's defense, he is a serious klingonist
[..]
> However, he is very honest about it, so I would advise you against hating him; criticize the project all you want, but the man behind it seems like a perfectly nice individual and a good klingonist.

Sure!

"hating" sound a lot to strong, and it's not against him in person. My 
sincere apologies if this might offend anyone. It's just the project 
that I really not like.
I have respect for Joel Anderson, and I know he has been on this list 
for a long time.

The UTA is really annoying, I keep getting message like {jIH rur SoH} 
and {Dun vum pol ghoS} etc and I see immediately where it comes from, 
especially when there are untranslated bits in it.

What is even worse is when you find a page "teaching" Klingon, and it 
contains these automatic phrases.

When I Google translate into English what it sees not at all that bad, 
but if it's just simple word for word, then it really comes out just 
scrap it? ghorgh jIH [Google] [translate] Daq [English] nuq 'oH [sees] 
ghobe' Daq Hoch vetlh qab 'ach chugh [it's] [just] nap mu' vaD mu' vaj 
'oH [really] choltaH pa' [just] [scrap] 'oH.

By the way, 99% of the users never read the small print.

:-(

Lieven.