tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 17 08:22:31 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon spoken in latest Big Bang Theory?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Courier"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Courier">Are you sure the second word began with {mo-}? Both {m} and {p} are labials and can often be mistaken for one another - also {b} for that matter.
</span></font><font size="4" color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">The only phrases the writers might have looked up I can think of are {</span></font><b><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier;font-weight:bold">DaHjaj
po}</span></font></b><font face="Courier"><span style="font-family:Courier"> “this morning” or {<b><span style="font-weight:bold">DaHjaj pov}</span></b> this afternoon”. (What time of day was Wolowitz’s wedding?)</span></font><b><font size="4" color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D;font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> lojmIt
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:45 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I just listened to it and it sounded like {DaHjaj mojaq...} and I couldn't hear the next word because he was interrupted. Not that {mojaq} makes any sense here. Yep. It's
a Klingon word, pronounced admirably well, but it had nothing to do with the ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Perhaps I misheard, and it was one of the stock phrases. Canon master: Anything starting with {DaHjaj} that this could have been?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On May 16, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Wiechu wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I was able to hear something like DaHjaj "mopa" 'oH, DaHja..... There's probably a letter missing between "mo" and "pa" but it was too laud for me to understand what's
there. It definitely isn't mopwI' as there's a clear "a" at the end of that word.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I was also surprised that Klingon version started with DaHjaj while english equivalent didn't even contain "today" word.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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