tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 11 16:44:50 1997
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Re: Space Cadets
Duncan Barrett points us to:
>http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/spacecadets
There I find a graphic image with the following words:
meHmeyDaq tIjaH, ghotpu' noyqu'
yabDu' qIbmey jojvo' DIyu'taHvIS,
QeDlut ngoDHommey DISammeH
Daq not Suchta'boghDaq [sic]
Dol val latlh'e' batlh
majaHtaHvIS logh ghuvpu'
qo' wIchenmoHmeH.
ra'wI' jIH. Sum cha'
HoDpu' yoH tu'lu', 'ej Hogh
Hoch nughom
lalDanHommey nIv ngo'.
I have replaced some "�" and "�" characters with {'}. My best guess:
"You go them to bridges, while we are interrogating them
from between galaxies of very famous people's brains.
In order for us to locate science-stories' minor facts,
location never which has visited location clever entity's
other one, while we are going with honor, in order for us
to make a realm of space recruits.
"I am the commander. One finds two brave captains they are nearby,
and every of week old superior denominations meet us."
The site has a link to a RealAudio stream that appears to speak
the words, but I can't get a good connection to the server. It
is difficult to listen to speech in half-second increments with
several-second pauses intervening.
Oh, and now I find that there is a translation and pronunciation
guide provided! The pronunciation gets a few things wrong, like
equating {q} with "k", but most blatantly saying that the � (the
{'}, anyway) implies "unusual stress is always placed on the last
syllable of each word."
MAN THE BRIDGES
AS WE PROBE THE INTERGALACTIC MINDS
OF A HOST OF STARS
BOLDLY GOING
WHERE NO OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFEFORM
HAS GONE BEFORE
ON A QUEST FOR SCI-FI TRIVIA
CREATING A WORLD OF SPACE CADETS
I'M THE COMMANDER
FLANKED BY A COUPLE OF STURDY CAPTAINS
AND EACH WEEK JOINED
BY SOME COOL OLD CULTS
It's interesting to see the British pronunciation at work here.
They say {joj} sounds like "George", and {Daq} is like "dark".
I did find a true gem in the pile, though: {ngo'} is supposed
to sound like the middle of "hangover". :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'