tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 24 08:24:46 1996

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Re: some homophonies



>Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:21:18 -0700
>From: Dave Yeung <[email protected]>

>>the captain says "I told you, engine only!"  In Klingon, this was
>>originally, "qama'pu' jonta' neH!" (ma' being the word for "say" at that
>>time).  Unfortunately, they diddled some dialogue after the shoot, and

>I thought the funniest thing was the way he changed {ma'} to mean 
>"accomodate".  Thus {qama'pu'} = "I have accomodated you", perhaps to 
>indicate that Dr. Okrand accomodated the producers (or someone else).

Right... I meant to point that out too; thanks for catching it.

~mark

P.S. Okrand also confirms having had a neighbor named "Jill."


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