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RE: comic text

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: comic text
• Date: Tue, 27 May 97 01:22:00 UT

jatlh qoror:

> 	qoror here.  I've discovered a comic book of The Next Generation that
> includes a decent amount of Klingon in it, and I thought I'd relate it to 
you.

Actually, this has been posted before!

>Later, Picard says to Q, "naDev vo' yIgghos!" followed by "vaj
> bIHegh"
> "Or die!"  (All the Klingon is "translated".)  Obviously, the writer heard
> "bIje'be'chugh vaj bIHegh" (or saw it in TKW), remembered "Hegh" means 
"die,"
> and decided "vaj bIHegh" meant "or die."

Actually, I imagine the writer saw the phrase {bIje'be'chugh vaj bIHegh} 
translated as "Buy or die," and thought

bIje'be'chugh = buy
vaj = or
bIHegh = die.

All of these phrases are obviously copied from already-translated sentences by 
Okrand; the author seems to have no knowledge of Klingon.

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97401.9

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