tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 28 10:40:31 1999
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Re: Star Trek : Klingon! CD-Rom Game observation
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- Subject: Re: Star Trek : Klingon! CD-Rom Game observation
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:39:54 -0500 (EST)
> I realize that a phrase like "Everyone, be frozen" could be interpreted as
> "Do not move" in any civilization, but I was bored, and wanted to nitpick.
<Cantonese/Chinese> Hol jatlhtaHvIS vay', "petaD" ra'chugh, chaq
"pebIrchoH" Hech 'e' yaj Hoch.
= If someone commanded in Cantonese/Chinese to "Freeze!" it might
be understood by everyone as "Become cold!", i.e. it would be
taken literally.
The phrase is a Terran colloquialism, and an English one at that.
That phrase in KCD bothered me too, along with the obvious
mispronunciation (or shall I say slaughtering) of <bIyem'a'?>
which sounded like <bayyem''''''a?>
> juDmoS
Incidentally, is there a transcript somewhere of what Gowron was
supposed to be saying in the introduction? I can make out a few
phrases here and there, but the rest is chatter to me. Is it
in a back issue of HolQeD or something? Also for those of us
who joined the KLI late (I got my card only a few weeks ago
=) ), are the back issues available online or something?
ta'ta'!
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