tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 31 22:27:35 1997
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Re: "A Matter of Honor"
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "A Matter of Honor"
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 03:33:08 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Susan Farmer wrote:
> >
> >Does anybody have a copy of the first season TNG episode, "A Matter of
> >Honor?" On my Paramount Hol page, I list a quote from that episode as
> >being...
> >
> >yIHarQo', nepwI' ghaH
> >
> >..while ~mark remembers the line as...
> >
> >yIHarQo', nepwI' Daba'
> >
> >Neither of us has the episode in question, so could an outside source
> >review the tape and tell us what you hear? Thanks.
> >
>
> In the script, it's:
>
> yI-Har-Qo! nep-we' ghaH! (do not believe him, he lies)
Really! Well, then, this just proves to me that Okrand didn't have the script
in front of him when he backfit this line.
Think about it: {-ba'} and {Da} are both in the Addendum to TKD, where The
Next Generation (and other) backfits are found.
When I heard the line for the first time after I had begun studying Klingon, I
reasoned it out as {nepwI' ghaH}, but I quite definitely heard a {-ba'} in
there. It took me a while to remember the {-ba'} suffix and {Da}, but once I
did, I was thrilled for deducing an Okrandian backfit all on my own.
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SuStel
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