tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 01 19:18:46 1996
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Re: Klingon Advertising
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Klingon Advertising
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:18:58 -0500
joSepuS writes:
[Informix's <nuqDaq yuch Dapol> ad in July 1996]
>Is this the first instance of the use of Klingon for advertising
>purposes, or does anyone know of an earlier example?
A similar ad appeared several months earlier.
According to <http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1996/Feb96/0185.html>:
>(3) In the British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" (Tue 14 Feb 1996), p3, there
>is a quarter-page ad with a photo of a Klingon, and under it "nuqDaq yuch
>Dapol" (which seems to mean "Where do you keep the chocolate?") in inch-high
>type, and below that in smaller type an advertisement (including two
>Star-Trek-ish references) for a database software selling company called
>Informix. The idea is to convey the trouble in understanding incoming
>information unless you buy e.g. Qwertyuiop Incorporated's software.
I expect there was also Klingon in the ads for the Red Lake Falls
Klingon Language Camp a few years ago: {naDev tlhInganpu' tu'lu'}.
-- ghunchu'wI'