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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 25 of 109 17 May 2006 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can also find Gilgamesh...I have the Klingon Hamlet, which stunned a few people when I showed them...It's neat because it's bilingual: English on one page and Klingon on the facing page. If Shakespeare really was translated to English, maybe that's why he's been hard for me to read. :-P
There are also passages of the Bible in Klingon, I don't really know how far that's gone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 26 of 109 17 May 2006 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Patuco...does your friend actually speak Klingon himself/herself? I have one friend that I know is a ST fan, but he doesn't know the language...Not surprisingly, I've never personally met a speaker of it. Edited by Journeyer on 17 May 2006 at 3:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 109 17 May 2006 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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No he doesn't, since he's not much of a language buff. He's more interested in the "technical" side of the ST universe. He does know the odd phrase, however, and I just thought that I could surprise him with a few of my own.
I actually like Star Trek myself but not to the extent he does and I certainly don't like it enough to learn a made-up language...although it would be a rather cool to be fluent! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 28 of 109 17 May 2006 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, like I said, I was initially put off by it. At least learning Esperanto has *some* use to it, right? I mean, it's not the universal language Zamenhof intended it to be, but there's something to the language in terms of learning it to help me with other languages. But Klingon? It's not practical, nor was it intended to be. However, the more I learned about it, the more it drew me in.
I admit, it has really no practical purposes unless you have to learn it for a linguistics study or something. So, if one is learning it, you had damn well better be learning it for fun, eh? =) So it is quite in the niche in this thread, I hope. I agree, it would be cool to be fluent...even if I don't use it that much...Maybe I could write my diary in it... =P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mga Groupie United States beastie.redirectme.n Joined 7124 days ago 67 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 29 of 109 21 May 2006 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic (currently studying)
Pashto Urdu Sanskrit Latin Russian Icelandic Xhosa Swahili Ancient Greek 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 30 of 109 21 May 2006 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was so happy to find a TY book and audio course of Xhosa and Zulu in the city library. For these two languages, these are the only grammar books I can find, maybe the only resources, (although I haven't really looked much yet, outside of Amazon) so I don't know if I'll be able to learn them to a very advanced level...
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| sumabeast Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6927 days ago 212 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 31 of 109 23 May 2006 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Mga, you have a flair for the exotic! nice choices, you care to tell us why? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mga Groupie United States beastie.redirectme.n Joined 7124 days ago 67 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 32 of 109 24 May 2006 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic because every aspect of it is awesome. Pashto because I like the way it sounds and the culture associated with it.
Urdu because I love the Nastaliq style of the Arabic alphabet it is written in, and its connection to Hindi. Sanskrit, Latin, Icelandic, and Ancient Greek for literary purposes. Russian simply becuase it is Russian. Xhosa because it is Xhosa. Swahili becuase I plan to climb Mount Kilimanjaro sometime. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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