[Tlhingan-hol] *ghabtar* mupwI'...

[SuStel]

On 1/20/2016 8:16 AM, De'vID wrote:
> De'vID:
>>> How would you say "he's an honorary Klingon" (i.e., I consider
>>> him a Klingon for the purposes under consideration)?
>
> lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
>> tlhIngan ghaHbe', 'ach tlhInganna' Dachu'.
>>
>> Yes, the last word is ambiguous, but the alternative meaning would
>> require further explanation as to the nature of your engaging a
>> true Klingon.
>
> That might work for some contexts, but not this one.
>
> Have people not seen Galaxy Quest? Alan Rickman plays an actor who
> plays a rubber-forehead-alien on that movie universe's version of
> Star Trek. Basically, he plays Michael Dorn. (He plays an actor who
> has made fame and fortune by playing a rubber-forehead-alien on a
> popular sci-fi show but who resents the indelible association.)
>
> I consider him an honorary Klingon. He doesn't act like a Klingon.
> He hasn't actually acted (in a movie) as a Klingon. His association
> with Klingonhood is much more subtle than that: he played an actor
> who plays a Klingon without playing an actor who plays a Klingon.

Perhaps {quv; tlhIngan rur} "honored as a Klingon." The way similes work
in Klingon, this would not be interpreted to mean that he resembles a
Klingon, only that he is honored like one.

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