tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 12 18:29:35 2000
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Re: The song heard in "Barge of the Dead" (was Re: Klingon Opera)
ja' charghwI':
>You suffer from the illusion that the people who made these up
>actually intended for these words to mean anything. Dispell this
>illusion. They did not consult Marc Okrand. They never do.
There's enough signal in the noise to suggest to me that the author
consulted somebody who thought he knew Klingon, or at least thought
he knew enough to "fake it" convincingly.
>They
>needed some syllables to put subtitles to. They looked some up
>in the dictionary without ever learning the language and they
>made up sounds for words they didn't have.
The half-baked attempt at using a superlative should count for at
least *something*, in my opinion. :-)
>This is what they do.
>Get used to it.
Alas, they also popularize some of the major blunders. We'll have
to endure people saying "k'plah!" forever. :-P
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh