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Re: Star Trek Killer?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

ngabwI' wrote:

> > QaStaHvlS wa'ram LoS SaD Hugh SlijlaH qetbogh loD
>
>I've seen this before, on another board. This is supposed to be:
>
>{qaStaHvIS wa' ram, loSSaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD}
>lit. "While one night happens, a man which runs can slit 4000 throats"
>"Four thousand throats may be cut in a single night by a running man"
>
>The English comes from the TOS episode "Day of the Dove" (I forget the
>specifics.) It was translated by Dr Okrand, and included in TKW.

TKW p.127

>(It might also be in TKD, with the useful phrases. I haven't my materials
>with me.)

It does indeed appear in TKD's Appendix "A Selected List of Useful Klingon 
Expressions" (2nd ed., p. 171).  I guess someone finally found a good use 
for this particular expression!



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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