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

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 02:59:59 PDT 2012


loghaD:
> That reminds me of another one, by the way, from "The Way of the Warrior":
>
> loD SoSlI' chaw'[qu'/Qo'] SoH jatlh?
> "Does your mother let you talk to men?"

Arrrghhhh!  You just reminded me of the "Klingish" ("Englon"?) phrase
that grated on my nerves the most when I heard it on TV: *{Qab jIH
nagIl} which allegedly means "Face me if you dare".  Obviously, {qab}
is "face (noun)", and *{nagIl} was intended to be {ngIl}.

Face!  Me!  Dare!

-- 
De'vID



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