[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon dialogue from the movie "Paul"?
Robyn Stewart
robyn at flyingstart.ca
Thu Dec 22 07:51:13 PST 2011
jISaHbe' is in the appendix to The Klingon Dictionary and jay' is
four pages later, but it really takes some understanding of the
translation process to make that leap. I know I'd freak out had I
gone to see a movie and discovered that kind of random Klingon.
At 05:19 22/12/2011, De'vID jonpIn wrote:
>jIHvaD ja' vay', jatlh: jIH'a' much "Paul" Daleghchugh, tlhIngan Hol
>jatlhlu' 'e' DaQoylaH. jIH'a' muchvam vIlegh vIneHbe'mo', YouTubeDaq
>muchvam 'ay'Hom vISam.
>
>tlhIngal Hol jatlhlu'bej. jatlh vay': {jISaHbe' jay'}. 'etlh je'
>neHlaw' ghaH 'ach wagh 'ej yapbe' HuchDaj. jIH'a' muchvamDaq latlh
>tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu''a'? much qonwI'pu' QaH'a' vay'?
>
>SKI: Someone told me the movie "Paul" had Klingon in it. I watched a
>clip in YouTube where someone says {jISaHbe' jay'}. The subtitle was
>"f--- that". The context was he wanted to buy a sword, but didn't
>have enough money, so he exclaimed that he hadn't wanted it after all.
> Were there other Klingon lines in the movie? Did the writers have
>help (i.e., from the KLI)? (I ask because that's actually not a bad
>translation, given the context, and it's much better than the usual
>look-up-each-word which would probably have resulted in something like
>*{ngagh vetlh}.)
>
>--
>De'vID
>
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