tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 05 12:44:10 1995
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Re: qeylIS betleH
On 5 Dec 95 at 10:40, Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
wrote:
> uu> From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!WestphalWz
> uu> Subject: qeylIS betleH
>
> >So we study and use "High Klingon" and Paramount puts "common
> Klingon" >on the screen. Not a problem!
>
> uu> Since PK warns students that serious consequences can occur by
> not uu> speaking the current emperor's dialect, I see Klingon as
> being seriously ostracized in
> their own society for speaking anything other than proper (or
> clipped) Klingon.
>
> What's so different? Are not "our street people" seriously
> ostracized by the majority of business and political folks, because
> they don't speak correctly?
Interestingly, whenever Paramount is looking for black actors for
Star Trek (and probably other such roles) they specify that they
don't want actors who speak with a "street accent".
> | Lieutenant Commander Qob vestai-qutvaj |
maSqa'
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