tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 27 00:00:14 2001
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Re: *Enterprise* Hol rurbe' tlhIngan Hol
Anyone notice that the people doing the closed-captioning actually made a
significant effort at getting it right? I suppose I can log the CC text to
a file to post somewhere if someone is interested...
>Actually, I caught a couple of appropriate words. Just a couple, mind you!
>The one I can think of offhand is /juH/, which Hoshi pronounces as "joo"
>(which is what you'd expect her to pronounce), assuming that the last word
>of Hoshi's sentence was supposed to be "home" (as it was in her English
>translation).
>
>Clearly, a lot of it is gibberish. Or, at least, not /ta'ma' tlhIngan Hol/.
>
>But hey, who says /ta' Hol/ as we know it even exists in 2151? If ever
>there was an argument for excusing gibberish as /no' Hol/, this is it.
>
>And we don't know for sure that the Klingon didn't live in the hinterlands.
>
>That was more Klingon than we've ever gotten in any Star Trek episode! Too
>bad most of it's useless to us. I liked Hoshi's translation for "Shut up,"
>though.
>
>SuStel
>Stardate 1738.8
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel Anderson" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>; "tlhingan-hol" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:24 PM
>Subject: *Enterprise* Hol rurbe' tlhIngan Hol
>
>
> tlhIngan Hol mu'mey vIQoylaHbe'ta'
>
> ---
>
>No surprise, but did *anyone* hear tlhIngan Hol in the Enterprise premier?
>I'll note they *did* a bit of a dodge with a throwaway line about the *MANY*
>dialects among the Klingon people.
>
>Probably going to be more of a source for the Vulcan linguistic crowd......
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