[Tlhingan-hol] ghuy'cha'! Welsh Government Issues Communique Partly In Klingon

[Fiat Knox]

The interview was hilarious. They were practicing their pronunciation, quoting taH pagh taHbe', and I told them not to worry about getting it wrong at first because if there was a Klingon coming at you swinging a betleH it probably wouldn't be because he was going to critique your pronunciation.
I pronounced taH pagh taHbe' for them correctly. I'm afraid I could not do a decent Christopher Plummer voice, but I tried my best.

And at the end, I cheekily offered my services to the Welsh Assembly Government as a consultant in all future communications, because you might as well pay someone to get it right as use Bing, which will only give you gibberish laced with profanities.




     On Saturday, 11 July 2015, 8:58, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
   
 

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Sent: July 10, 2015 11:59
To: 'Fiat Knox'; 'Klingon Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] ghuy'cha'! Welsh Government Issues Communique Partly In Klingon  I’d give the exact translation from TKD and then the “unsettling communique”-type explanation and then go like you’re going to suggest an actual English translation and trust the interviewer to cut you off before you say it.

Of course you’ll be ready with a CORRECT version of the intended tlhIngan Hol and information on NOT trusting machine translation for any language.

Qapla’!  From: Fiat Knox [mailto:fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: July 10, 2015 6:09
To: Klingon Mailing List
Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] ghuy'cha'! Welsh Government Issues Communique Partly In Klingon  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-ministers-were-asked-information-9624682  The Welsh Government ... my government ... were asked a somewhat naive question on UFOs at Cardiff Airport.  The reply from Llywodraeth Cymru is this.
jang vIDa je due luq. ‘ach ghotvam’e’ QI’yaH-devolved qaS
I have been conscripted to discuss this in a Radio Wales broadcast tonight, 17:20, British Summer Time. When I come to the QI'yaH bit, that's where matters are going to get complicated.  Good job they didn't respond with drawings of crop circles, eh? Actually, maybe they could have tried that first ...  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++  

 
  
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