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Re: REPOST: KLBC: trying again



On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 21:26:50 -0700 HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 08:47 AM 9/6/96 -0700, Andrea Benton wrote:
> 
> This is really weird... I don't remember seeing the original posting for this...
> 
> >tlhIngan Hol jatlhbe' be'jatlhwI' ngaS Hol JabbI'ID qatlh
> 
> "why tapes of language contain female speakers do not speak Klingon?"
...
 
>         qatlh tlhIngan Hol lujatlhbe'bogh be'jatlhwI'pu' ngaS Hol jabbI'ID?

The head noun of the relative clause is not marked, despite your comment 
in the text indicating that you intended to mark it. So:

Why does the message of the language contain women speakers who do not 
speak Klingon language?

Why does the message of the language contain Klingon language which is 
not spoken by women speakers?
 
Guessing at the original intent, I'll try:

tlhIngan Hol ghojlu'meH ghogh ta vIQoyta'. be' ghogh lo'lu'pu', 'ach not 
tlhIngan Hol jatlh be'vam. tlhIngan Hol jatlh loD ghogh neH. tavam qonmeH 
qatlh tlhIngan Hol jatlhlaHbogh be'pu''e' lo'be' qonwI'?

As for the answer, Marc Okrand is actually pronouncing the vast majority 
of the Klingon on both tapes. There is, I believe, one woman's voice 
speaking Klingon in the untranslated beginning to CK (which is 
subsequently translated on a tag bundled with the Klingon "holodome" -- 
one of those glass balls full of water and glitter that you shake, only 
instead of a snowscape, you get a lit Bird of Prey and a sound chip with 
the same dialog and different background music). Marc still says about 
half the lines, but there are other actors mixed in as well.

charghwI'




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