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RE: KLBC: Way of the Warrior

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: Way of the Warrior
• Date: Sat, 22 Feb 97 18:45:31 UT

jatlh qul lung:

> I read a novelization of the DS9 episode "Way of the Warrior" and came
> accross a quote "Cheghchu DjajVam DjajKak!" which was given as "Today is a
> good day to die." In The Klingon Way, this same phrase is given as
> "Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam." Obviously, the Way of the Warrior version is
> terribly wrong, but what exactly is wrong with it?

What's wrong is the same thing that goes wrong with most Klingon you hear on 
DS9: someone didn't do their homework.

Don't worry about it.  This phrase has now become TERRIBLY overused, and I'm 
getting tired of it.  We know how the Klingons say it, from TKW.

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97146.6

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