tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 21 20:29:00 2006
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Re: A probably missed pun...
- From: Shane MiQogh <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: A probably missed pun...
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:28:45 -0800 (PST)
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From the Klingons i have an impretion of them joking as cussing to us and their cussing as even worse. lol Though you're probably right, but a few might be still cussing to us, if there even is an equivalent to some of these klingon words in english...
Elizabeth Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: The other thing about curses is that they are very cultural. Klingons may
not see the sex act as profane, while insulting their honor or foreheads
might be more serious. Literal translations of the curses might not seem
very profane to an english speaker, and vice versa. Okrand may simply not
have wanted to spend the time figuring out what cultural stigma Klingons
might have to warrant profanities. Knowing how they're used is enough for
speech, and it allows you to connect them to something meaningful to you in
your own mind.
Elizabedth
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