"Little Ditty" (fwd)

----- Forwarded message from Ivan A Derzhanski -----

(Forward as appropriate.  What's the `little ditty' they're talking of?)

John Cowan wrote:
> It has been said that Ivan Derzhanski learned Klingon
> from the "Hamlet" translation alone.
Not from _Hamlet_ but from _Much Ado about Nothing_ (_Hamlet_ wasn't
out yet at that time), and I didn't exactly learn Klingon from that,
though that was where I got my first Klingon words and my first idea
of Klingon grammar from.  Nick {nIchyon} Nicholas has been urging me
to describe and publish that experience, but I haven't got around to
doing that yet.

Btw, this looks like an opportunity for promoting my page of Klingon
translations of poetry:  <http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/bommugh.html>.

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