[Tlhingan-hol] Politician Quits, Writes Resignation Letter "In Klingon"

[Fiat Knox]

chut Qumran'a', perhaps?

I received a phone call from a radio station this morning, and had to improvise my own "resignation letter" on the air. I came up with SaQochmo' quvvaD SIbI' jIbupnIS.
That was the cue for thirty seconds of uncontrolled laughter from the presenter down the line. Humans are so easily amused.




On Saturday, 4 January 2014, 5:31, nIqolay q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:
 
The Klingon translation is horrible, which will surprise none of you,
>I'm sure. "Constitution" and "resignation" have been transliterated
>directly as "chonStItutIon" and "reSIghnatIon". I do like the last
>line, which Waddell left untranslated: "jachtaHvIS jatlh: DavID
>waDDell". The first half is the longest sensible part of the letter,
>and I think "he said it while screaming" is a rather amusing way to
>end an angry message. I wonder if it was intentional, and if not, what
>the intended meaning of that phrase was.
>
>Translating the intended message more accurately isn't that hard, but
>I did get hung up on the best way to translate "Constitution", in the
>context of the US Constitution. chut'a', perhaps?
>
>
>On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Fiat Knox <fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> This turned up on my Facebook newsfeed. It is a Yahoo News article about
>> some politician whose resignation letter was apparently in Klingon. The
>> article might amuse some of you.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/this-means-war--n-c--politician-quits-council-seat-in-klingon-language-letter-153439620.html
>>
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