[Tlhingan-hol] > Subject: Re: paq'batlh text for Bing

[d'Armond Speers, Ph.D.]

> ... check them with pojwI' ...

Be still my heart!  Nice to hear this is still useful for someone.  :)
 qaStaHvIS DIS law' pojwI' vIqelbe'.

-- Holtej

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:39 PM Christoph Pichlmann <
christoph_pichlmann at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You DO realize that even people who are actively learning klingon might
> need a help, to look up a word, or confirm that what they cobbled together
> actually can be understood?
> If someone wants to hack badly done klingon, there are ample resources for
> that right now. There have always been. A translator like bing makes it a
> fair bit easier, sure, but it's also easier to generate interest.
> Not everyone thinks its fun to memorize (not learn) vocabulary or create a
> database of words just to have something to look it up. (It certainly isn't
> a learning experience - I don't have to actually read what I write when I'm
> just copying.)
>
> When I'm trying to create a sentence, I constantly look up words at
> Klingonska, check them with pojwI' and would love to have something that
> could give a pointer for the klingon word I'm searching for.
> Most of the time spent is trying to find synonyms that express the idea I
> have in mind but lack the precise word that exists in klingon.
>
> I don't think anyone who actually thinks about it would ever use a machine
> translation and think they're done. Even with simple things like
> german<>english I wouldn't trust them enough.
>
> Christoph
>
>
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