"Marauders" (spoilers)

[SuSvaj <zayericd@pilot.msu.edu>]

I only remember hearing "HIjol."

At 11:18 AM 10/31/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Thomas West asks:
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>>>Any opinions on the tlhIngan-Hol spoken in last nights episode of 
>>>"Enterprise"?
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>Holtej:
>>You mean, other than {veQ}?  There were some words here or there that 
>>made sense to me.  At one point, when the Klingons were hunting around 
>>for the miners and saw one running away, the leader yelled {pa'!}.  That 
>>was pretty cool.  But mostly, it didn't sound intelligible to me.
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>DloraH:
> >The leader did say /HIjol/ to be beamed up.  But that's a phrase Paramount
> >already knew from using it before.
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>Indeed.  When I first heard it I (1) was impressed that one of the writers 
>actually conjugated a verb; 2) mentally corrected it to {ghojol} "Beam 
>*us* up!"; then (3) was disappointed upon remembering that {HIjol} was 
>given in the "List of Useful Expressions" appendix in TKD and realizing 
>that the writers hadn't actually conjugated a verb after all.
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> >and of course the popular /cha/ was in there.
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>As well as *p'tok*, which was uttered two or three times. <g>
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> >Were there any closed captions for anything?
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>Yup.  I thought someone might ask, so I wrote them down:
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>   KOROK:  Tu'chaH!  HI-qem chaH!  Dah!
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>I imagine this is supposed to be:  "Find them! Bring me them! Now!"
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>   KOROK:  pa'chaH So'!
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>"There they hide!"
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>   KOROK:  il-Qot lam parHa' Oosh!  They're hiding in the dirt like Targ.
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>"___ lie dirt like ___!"  (Something is wrong with this caption!)
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>   KOROK:  Gorat-kA!
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>???  (From context, this is something like "After them! Get them!")
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>   KOROK:  Net joj!  HIv chaH qagh!  muH HoH toch!
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>"That [pronoun!] area-between!  Attack them *gakh* (?)!  Execute, kill, 
>palm (of hand)!"
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>Although /toch/ was in the captions, this was probably a typo by the 
>captionist for {Hoch}, making that last bit:  "Execute [them], kill everyone!"
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>Sigh.  Another example of the Paramount 
>look-up-the-words-and-plug-them-into-English-word-order school of 
>"translating".  Still, they are using the Dictionary instead of just 
>making up wholesale gibberish.  I'm always amazed that no writer has ever 
>been curious enough to read the first half of TKD, where the grammar is 
>explained.  As grammars go, it's pretty simple actually.
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>The ENTERPRISE writers are far more attentive to Trek on-screen canon, 
>however.  T'Pol correctly explains the use of bat'leth and mek'leth as 
>well as the Klingon preference for using bladed weapons in hand-to-hand 
>combat, even when disruptors are available.  (I wonder:  Is this from 
>personal experience or did she just look it up in the 900-odd page Vulcan 
>database on Klingon culture which was mentioned in a previous 
>episode?)  In a nice little reference to TOS "The Trouble With Tribbles", 
>Korok insults the miners before he leaves:  "We can find deuterium 
>anywhere.  Yours isn't fit for a garbage scow!"
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>--
>Steven L. Boozer
>Cataloging Department, University of Chicago Library
>s-boozer@uchicago.edu                 (773) 702-8726