tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 06 15:00:13 1996
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Re: Is there any GOOD Klingon on video?
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Is there any GOOD Klingon on video?
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:59:46 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
I know I'm late on this comment, but...
On Sun, 28 Jul 1996 19:53:42 -0700 David Savill
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > On the next round, I'd like
them to listen to more Klingon
> > -- the video I had was too short. Can you recommend a
> > TV episode or movie segment in which there is a lot of
> > *good* Klingon spoken? If it was one that is *for sale*,
> > that would be great, 'cause then I can show it in my class
> > each semester and put it on reserve. (Or, if you could
> > send me a good copy of a clip, that would be second best.)
> >
> >Can anyone help me with this?
>
> The only thing I could sugest is the klingon spoken in StarTrek 6, where
> General Chang in in the courtroom prosecuting Kirk and McCoy.
NOOOOOOOO! HE IS MUTTERING GIBBERISH IN THAT SCENE!
Instead, take anything from the THIRD Star Trek movie,
Search for Spock. Christopher Lloyd is definitely the best
Klingon speaker ever to hit the silver screen. Nobody else
comes close.
Some of the stuff in ST6 is fine, but stick to major actors
and mostly stick to lines with subtitles. Besides an
occasional {vavoy} there isn't much there without a
subtitle worth studying. And at least one line (when the
warrior spreads a map out on the table) is COMPLETE
gibberish, even though it DOES have a subtitle. He seems to
like the vowel "uh" sound and the consonant "w", so he
repeats them a lot for a second or two.
Then again, point her to the audio tapes.
> Also some TNG epps have klingon in them, but for the life of me I wouldnt
> remember the names of em :)
Every single one of them is garbage! Rarely is a word
recognizable, and when it is, it does not reside in
anything resembling a sentence. The TV cast couldn't call
off a charghing targh!
> But for a real good show why dont you whip good ole STAR TREK:Klingon and
> shove that on a tape....its got a good klingon scene at the beginning, with
> (so im told) correct dailogue unlike the movies. (re. nuqneH becomes nuqney)
> Qapla'
> T'kul
Well, the CD actors seem to be speaking a dialect such that
every Klingonist I've witnessed so far upon seeing it the
first time looks up with a quizzical expression. I
definitely recognized the word {SuvwI'pu'} in the middle
of Gawron's monolog once. Not much else.
> Hello from ......
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>
> "pIpyuS pach DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS"
>
charghwI'