[Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)

[Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh]

ghItlhpu' loghaD, jatlh:
> "MaghwI' chuH ghobe' QIb," said the voice.
jang ghunchu'wI', jatlh:
> I can't tease an obvious meaning from it, even trying to account for possible typos.

You're making the error of trying to analyse it with good Klingon grammar. :) I guess the author took the English sentence "A traitor casts no shadow" and did a word-by-word on it. I can't find a way to parse it as a meaningful Klingon sentence either.

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