tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 07:22:11 1996
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Re: translation of Mr. Bean
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>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:58:30 -0700
>From: Dave Yeung <[email protected]>
>How does one say "Mr. Bean" in Hol?
>bean is {qurgh}... {qurgh loD}?
We're going through this again? Consider... If you meet someone named
"John", and you're talking a weird language like English, do you translate
his name to its proper meaning and call him "Beloved-of-God" (as opposed to
God-has-given for those Jon(athan)s out there)? Names, generally, are
NAMES. Johann Bach is called not Beloved-of-God in English, nor even John,
but Johann. Same for Ivan the Terrible and Sean Penn. You can call him
anything you like, I just find it a little silly to worry about translating
names into Klingon when nobody translates them into anything else.
As to the other part of the question, I do not know of any honorific
corresponding to "Mr." for Klingon. Could you use "joH" this way? Or
better, "qaH"? Or perhaps "rewbe'"? Possibly. *IS* it done, culturally?
I don't know. The attachment of such honorifics for ordinary people is
culturally dependent.
~mark
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