tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 16 06:28:48 1997
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Re: The Black Fleet
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The Black Fleet
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 09:36:37 -0500
- Organization: http://www.kli.org
> >Hmmm... will we be hearing klingonaase soon?
>
> Perhaps we already have. The post-battle exchange between Kahless and
> Lukara is certainly not in tlhIngan Hol, at least not as we know it.
Nor should we expect it to be. This is one of those few times when I'm
not especially bothered by Paramount Hol. After all, we know that the
emperor's dialect is the "official" speech at any given time. Kahless
is the first Emperor (it's not clear, at least to me, if he's actually
Emperor yet at the time of the scene with Lukara), and lived hundreds of
years before whatever Emperor gave us Maltz's dialect. Even if it was
the *same* language, I'd expect to see large differences just due to
time. Not to mention the kind of linguistic upheaval that Kahless's
unifying of the Klingon people would have likely produced.
I'll save further details for my massive ten thousand page study of the
historical influences on Klingon rovers. ;)
Lawrence
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