tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 05:43:00 1995
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qeylIS betleH
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: qeylIS betleH
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 11:05:23
uu> From: ur-valhalla!netusa1.net!caanders (Alan Anderson)
uu> Subject: qeylIS betleH
>Kor speaks one of those oddball dialects. Recall that he called Dax
>{wIj jup} in "Blood Oath." Apparently, the Klingons in his area of the
>Empire talk backwords. <g>
uu> Or maybe he and Curzon used a "pidjin" dialect. Given Jadzia's
uu> apparent lack of skill with the language -- "luke, uh jee chim ta la"
uu> -- this might be a good way for us to deal with it.
That implies that almost *all* Klingons speak pidjin, though. (I know,
I know, "It should be remembered that even though the rules say 'always;
and 'never,' when Klingon is actually spoken these rules are sometimes
broken." Sometimes I think that everyday Hol bears as much resemblence
to the Hol of TKD as the ghetto English of the inner city resebles the
Queen's English!)