[Tlhingan-hol] Religious terminology

[Lieven]

Am 01.12.2015 um 18:11 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
> [...] I believe that it is impossible for any Klingonist to
> translate the bible adequately in Klingon. Unless he just wants to
> narrate in his own words the story of new testament...
[...]

I'm sure that any true Klingonist will agree with you. Indeed, we can 
almost express anything if you can play with words, but we all know that 
klingon is far from complete.

It is a good thing for beginners to be aware of that, so you don't try 
to translate complicated phrases. As SuStel just wrote, there simply is 
no word for "saint", so there is actually no need to describe it. It's 
like the most used example that there is no english word for pizza, so 
we don't try to use other words for it.

Most of the known klingon translations are only translations of the 
meaning, and very seldom a literal translation.

(and as an offtopic comment: most translations of religious texts also 
have those problems not being accurate due to rough translations and 
their mistakes.)



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Lieven L. Litaer
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