On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:33, Mike White wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 18:00, Rigel wrote: > >> --- Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Christian Einfeldt wrote: > >> > > Hi, > >> > > > >> > > The site for the localization of Klingon into > >> > > OpenOffice.org has crashed due to a power outage. Since > >> > > there has been very little interest in localizing Klingon > >> > > to OpenOffice.org, Gerry Singleton, Ben Horst, and I > >> > > (Christian Einfeldt) are now abandoning the project. > >> > > > >> > > If someone later wants to resurrect this project, so > >> > > Klingonists can have their own office suite in their own > >> > > language, that option will still be available through > >> > > OpenOffice.org: > >> > > > >> > > http://www.openoffice.org > >> > > > >> > > live long and prosper. > >> > > >> > Good Grief, Christian, it's "qa pla!" (forgive the > >> > spelling). "Live and long and prosper" is a Vulcan thing, > >> > totally out of character for a good old-fashioned, > >> > bloodthirsty, Klingon. > > > > That depends on what century you are in. In later centuries, > > the Klingons were part of the federation. > > > > But I guess also I must confess that I don't mind tweaking the > > Klingonists just a bit for their apathy and laziness in not > > wanting to localize OOo for Klingon. There doesn't seem to be > > much honor in that kind of laziness. > > Actually, if memory serves me correctly, wasn't Klingon derived > from Esperanto?
No, I don't think that is at all correct. Klingon is much much more gutteral than Esperanto. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
