tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 04 19:18:07 2001
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Re: Simpsons
DloraH wrote:
: Tonight on the Simpsons, the nerdy comicbook guy was thrown out of Moe's and
: while laying on the ground asked himself if there was a klingon word for
: loneliness; he pulls out a book (which had a maroon colored cover), flips
: through the pages and finds there is, and he said something that I think
: ended with [-eq]. I was too busy laughing. Anybody get this on tape?
I saw it too and also laughed. I didn't get it on tape, but I after I
heard the beginning of the joke I did listen closely and write it down
immediately: *{gha'DaQ} or *{gha'Daq}. Although it caught me by surprise,
I thought the actor voicing Comic Book Man - yes, that's the character's
name - pronounced it rather well. So well, in fact, that I watched the end
credits carefully to see if Marc Okrand was listed as an advisor as part of
an elaborate in-joke. He wasn't listed.
As we all know, there is no word for loneliness in Klingon, though there is
a verb {mob} "be alone", which happens to be one of Okrand's own jokes.
Looks like The Simpsons' writers came up with this on their own.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons