Hi dear fellows, I just discovered a new book avaiblable on Amazon, and getting to the point: It is useless. Do not buy it! It's all in Spanish, and it claims to teach the Klingon language. But it surely does not. The first paragraph looks quite complete and correct, but then, that author says that word order is like in English "SVO" - definitely wrong. Also, all translations are wrong, and actually, everything else is wrong too. At some point, it really appeared to me that the author intentionally created wrong information. A quick check-back on bing shows different results, so why would he make such a nonsense book? -- Probably just to make money, or maybe it's even a person who wants to fight against the Klingon language. After all, "Juan Ortiz" is as obvious as "John Smith" in English, so we cannot find out who made this useless, incorrect book about Klingon. For more deatils, see the Wiki at http://klingon.wiki/En/AprendaKlingon -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com
There's a typo in the Wiki link for this book. It should read : http://klingon.wiki/En/AprendeKlingon That's *aprende* with an E. But while searching the Wiki I stumbled across "Klingon Moderno para Brasileiros" : http://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonModerno with the Klingon translated by Lieven himself. Voragh ------------------------------Original Message------------------------------ From: tlhIngan-Hol On Behalf Of Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol I just discovered a new book avaiblable on Amazon, and getting to the point: It is useless. Do not buy it! It's all in Spanish, and it claims to teach the Klingon language. But it surely does not. The first paragraph looks quite complete and correct, but then, that author says that word order is like in English "SVO" - definitely wrong. Also, all translations are wrong, and actually, everything else is wrong too. At some point, it really appeared to me that the author intentionally created wrong information. A quick check-back on bing shows different results, so why would he make such a nonsense book? -- Probably just to make money, or maybe it's even a person who wants to fight against the Klingon language. After all, "Juan Ortiz" is as obvious as "John Smith" in English, so we cannot find out who made this useless, incorrect book about Klingon. For more deatils, see the Wiki at http://klingon.wiki/En/AprendaKlingon
Am 16.06.2023 um 18:27 schrieb Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol:
There's a typo in the Wiki link for this book. It should read : http://klingon.wiki/En/AprendeKlingon That's *aprende* with an E.
Of course you are right; That's the corret URL to that page.
But while searching the Wiki I stumbled across "Klingon Moderno para Brasileiros" : http://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonModerno with the Klingon translated by Lieven himself.
Indeed. But how is that related? -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/AliceInWonderland
Just that it's a counter-example which I don't remember you mentioning before. (Not that you didn't, I just don't remember it.) Have you provided Klingon expertise for many of these phrase books? Voragh ------------------------------Original Message------------------------------ From: tlhIngan-Hol On Behalf Of Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol Am 16.06.2023 um 18:27 schrieb Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol:
There's a typo in the Wiki link for this book. It should read : http://klingon.wiki/En/AprendeKlingon That's *aprende* with an E.
Of course you are right; That's the corret URL to that page.
But while searching the Wiki I stumbled across "Klingon Moderno para Brasileiros" : http://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonModerno with the Klingon translated by Lieven himself.
Indeed. But how is that related?
Am 16.06.2023 um 18:46 schrieb Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol:
Just that it's a counter-example which I don't remember you mentioning before. (Not that you didn't, I just don't remember it.) Have you provided Klingon expertise for many of these phrase books?
Well, I was not incolved with the Spanish book, but I did a 100% support of the Brazilian advertisment campaign for Netflix. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonModerno
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