[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rIymuS

[mayql qunenoS]

SuStel :

> You provided an English sentence along with the Klingon,
> so there was no chance of someone thinking {SImItar} was
> a Klingon word they couldn't find.

Ca'non master :

> which can cause others to waste time analyzing them as
> if they are Klingon words.

Well of course, by saying "I will no more defile a Klingon sentence,
by mixing it up with English" I meant that I will always provide the
english translation too to start with ; that was a given. It would be
utterly ridiculous to throw in a transliteration, without making clear
that it actually is one..

qunnoq HoD

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> mayql qunenoS wrote:
>>> While I was writing the original sentences, I wondered whether I
>>> should transliterate (is that how it is called?) the <Scimitar> to
>>> {SImItar}. In my short time here, I have gotten the impression that
>>> one should not transliterate.
>
> SuStel:
>> Transliteration is fine, so long as it's clear that you ARE
>> transliterating, and so long as your transliteration does not make anybody
>> think it's a canonical transliteration.
>>
>> You provided an English sentence along with the Klingon, so there was no
>> chance of someone thinking {SImItar} was a Klingon word they couldn't
>> find.
>
> You can often tell how long someone has been learning Klingon.  At first people like to transliterate phonetically or translate EVERY foreign name - even the short ones, which can cause others to waste time analyzing them as if they are Klingon words.  Then they set them off with "quotation marks" or <<brackets>>.  Myself, I tend to just write them ALL IN CAPS or, as in this case, Klingonize them a bit for variety (which Okrand does on occasion, e.g. Enterprise = {'entepray'}).
>
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