tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 08 13:16:20 1995
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Re: qeylIS betleH
- From: Adam Walker <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: qeylIS betleH
- Date: Fri, 8 Dec 95 15:11:03 -0600
- Organization: Dallas Baptist University
> Date sent: 8-Dec-95 8:34:20 -0600
> From: BILL @ INTERNET (Bill Willmerdinger) {[email protected]}
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> Subject: qeylIS betleH
> uu> From: ur-valhalla!netusa1.net!caanders (Alan Anderson)
> uu> Subject: qeylIS betleH
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> >Klingons are the same; they speak poorly amongst themselves, but
> >(sometimes) try to speak "properly" when among the powerful.
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> uu> If Gowron spoke more intelligibly, I might agree. As it is, though,
> uu> "zha zhu... jaj... vam... jajqaq" speaks poorly of the speaker's
> uu> speech. (This babbling is from "Way of the Warrior". Worf translated
> uu> it as "Today is a good day to die," disappointing us greatly.)
>
> Ah, that is easily explained! Go waaaaay back to when we first met Gowron.
> He is a provincial ship commander, not a product of the Homeworld like Duras!
> His accent is that of whatever dialect they speek in his backwater of the
> Empire. <g>
Be careful! That babbling is now the "official" babling ... er
dialect of the Empire. If you don't lear to babble ... er speak like
the Emperor you may never make lieutenant. {{:-)
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