[Tlhingan-hol] Doch QIjwI'

[Will Martin]

My next project, if I get around to it, is to translate Randall Monroe’s “Thing Explainer”. The author of the online XKCD comic has a picture book about various scientific topics, written using only the 1,000 most commonly used English words. As an example, the Saturn 5 rocket becomes “Up goer Five”, and when he tries to explain that he’s only using the thousand most common words, he has to change “thousand” to “ten hundred”, since “thousand” is not one of the thousand most common words.

I’m mentioning this for two reasons:

1. I start a lot of projects that never get finished, and if I tell people about it, maybe someone else will finish it first, and this project is interesting enough that SOMEBODY ought to finish it.

2. Even if others don’t FINISH it, hey, it’s an interesting project and there’s no reason several of us can’t enjoy trying.

Of course, the thousand most common English words do not necessarily fall within the vocabulary of the 2,769 most common Klingon words...

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