[tlhIngan Hol] I h-a-t-e transliteration

[SuStel]

On 4/12/2019 3:05 PM, Daniel Dadap wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2019, at 13:00, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se 
> <mailto:felixm at kth.se>> wrote:
>
>> DIvI' Hol vIyajbe', 'ach tlhIngan wabmey lo'chugh ghItlhwI', tlhoS 
>> mu'mey vIqollaH.
>>
>
> Do', tlhIngan Hol jatlhchoHlaw' 'op DIvI'nganpu'. cha'Hu' jIyIttaHvIS 
> muchol cha' DIvI'ngan. veng pu'jIn lunuDtaH. jatlhlaw' wa':
>
> “He lo'. Haw'. 'ar yu'?”
>
> jIyajlaHchu'be', 'ach tlhejwI'Daj ghu' Dellaw'. He lo'meH pu'jIn 
> qenglaw'. mungDajvo' Haw'law'. 'ach qatlh ghot'e' yu'bogh toghnIS? taQbej.

    /It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much
    importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in
    the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a
    drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or
    any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme.
    The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the
    Sivolvian 'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at
    slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan
    'tzjin-anthony-ks' which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact
    the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the
    names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named
    before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds./

    ///What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As
    far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right
    off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get
    very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young
    structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at
    night convinced that they are very close to something of profound
    importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before
    their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural
    linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a
    large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning
    their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs./

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SuStel
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