On 12/10/2019 12:04 PM, Will Martin wrote:
> Everyone in this discussion so far has assumed that the Klingon
> translator chose to translate the English word “wolf” as {ngavyaw’}.
>
> I suggest that when translated from the original Klingon, a human
> translator chose to translate {ngavyaw’} as the English word “wolf”.
There is no premise here that the original was written in Klingon and
that it was translated into English. It's specifically a many-languages
translation of a German book about things that happen on Earth.
Furthermore, it's a children's book with lots of pictures which leaves very little doubt as to what the animal is supposed to be.
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De'vID