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Re: the Fek'lhr? and esperanto?

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: the Fek'lhr? and esperanto?
• Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:21:45 -0400
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From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>
> But in Klingon idiom, only Fek'lhr strikes again -- no one else does
> so.  Since IIRC he didn't "strike again" in the TNG episode "Devil's Due",
> the question remains: How did Okrand come up with {HIvqa' veqlargh} as a
> replacement proverb in "Power Klingon"?  Mere coincidence, or did he
> remember some phrase from one of his Terran languages?

[snip other observations]

Don't forget that Power Klingon was written by Barry Levine "with Marc
Okrand."  Levine probably wrote the script in consultation with Okrand on
linguistic matters, and Okrand wrote translations and pronounced them.
Looking too closely at the language tapes for hidden puns or meanings is not
likely to yield reliable results.

SuStel
Stardate 4368.3

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