Re: KLBC: Klingon Hamlet

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

ghel Klingonstudent:

> I was just pondering the other day while studying my "Klingon Hamlet",
> considering the Elizabethan English in which Shakespearean literature 
> is
> written in, dose the Klingon restored version of this particular work 
> reflect
> this fact by using a proposed "archaic" type of spoken Klingon?
> Or can the tlhIngan Hol in my Hamlet be used in everyday speech?

If I might be allowed to drop the pretense of Klingon restoration for a 
sec. :-)

Not deliberately; after all, when Shakes was writing things in 1600, he 
wasn't being archaic (except in particular instances --- the Hecuba 
speech, perhaps). That said, the style of Hamlet is not *necessarily* 
model Klingon style: more subordination and all-round complexity than 
the list consensus tends to favour (as Guido finds to this day. :-) But 
as long as you're careful with how long your sentences go, I *think* 
you can get away with using things from it as conversational Klingon. 
Anyone else?

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