Re: Is there any GOOD Klingon on video?

["William H. Martin" <whm2m@server1.mail.virginia.edu>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:33:15 -0700 DTrimboli@aol.com wrote:
> qaSDI' 96-08-06 18:20:44 EDT, jatlh charghwI'
> :
> > > The only thing I could sugest is the klingon spoken in StarTrek 6, where
> >  > General Chang in in the courtroom prosecuting Kirk and McCoy.
> >  
> >  NOOOOOOOO! HE IS MUTTERING GIBBERISH IN THAT SCENE! 
> 
> Actually, he's not.  The only problem is that he's speaking one syllable at a
> time, regardless of which word it belongs to.  Thus, {Qo'noS wa'Daq} becomes
> {Qo' . . . noS . . . waDaq . . .}  (yes, I believe he leaves off the glottal
> stop of {wa'}.
> 
> But it really is correct Klingon otherwise.

I'll try to watch again. You wouldn't happen to have a transcription, would you? Did he say 
anything interesting? As I remember it, he sounded like he was repeating the same syllable 
a lot. 

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