[Tlhingan-hol] God of The Apes

Christoph Pichlmann christoph_pichlmann at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 28 21:31:55 PST 2015


Not sure if this works:

yIHIv 'ej yIpIQHa': tI' tIraD. tIja': DelwI' muj. tlhIngan Hol 'oHbe'!

(It it doesn't work: toH. po. jIDoy'...)

What I tried to say:
Attack it, and be sneaky: Force them to fix it. Tell them: The description is wrong. This is not klingon.

More context:
Instead of writing a bad review (justified as it may be), I've marked the reviews as helpful and suggested a corrected description, removing the klingon language tag and linking to http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/GodOfTheApes as reference.
Maybe someone checks it and realizes that this product is making a fool of everyone - students of klingon because it's not klingon and they know it, those who simply want to have a klingon book because it's not klingon and they might not realize it. And of course Amazon for claiming the product is something it obviously isn't.
(Although looking at it, it should be obvious - either the language is completely unusable, in which case why bother; or the translation is junk, in which case why bother either?)

reyutqa'.
(pongwIj. yImughQo'.)



> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 01:27:23 +0100
> From: Lieven <levinius at gmx.de>
> To: "tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
> 	<tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
> Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] God of The Apes
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> I just found another one of these annoying books which claim to be 
> klingon translations, but which are quickly recognized as bing products.
> 
> If you got time and possibilty to do so, go to amazon and write a review 
> that this is not klingon. It's fake. It's crap. Newbies should be warned 
> that this is not a klingon book, it's just someone trying to get 
> attention for his book.
> 
> People in the world out there should know and understand that klingon is 
> a true language, and that not everyone can just write any book in 
> klingon. It endangers the quality of our hard work.
> 
> See amazon and the klingonwiki for more information:
> 
> http://www.klingonwiki.net/De/GodOfTheApes
> 
> rIn.
> 
> -- 
> Lieven L. Litaer
> aka Quvar valer 'utlh
> Grammarian of the KLI
> http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
> http://www.klingonwiki.net

 		 	   		  
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