On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 Mar 2013, at 23:24, Peter Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, I suppose it's long enough since Klingon was invented that it's >> conceivable there are people that grew up as in homes with dedicated Klingon >> speakers such that they can reasonably be called native speakers. >> >> But somehow I doubt it. > > It's unlikelier still because Klingon simply doesn't have enough vocabulary. > Experts I know have said that it would be impossible to translate Alice's > Adventures in Wonderland into Klingon, for this very reason. >
When translating from one language to another there are always some words and expressions for which there exists no exact equivalents. It is impossible to produce an exact translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in any language. Whilst with Klingon there may be more of these than most other languages translation possible, through no commercially profitable on this planet. > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ > > >
