tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 19 09:51:57 2008
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Re: Earthlings DVD (was qep'a')
ghunchu'wI':
>Now to go to the source:
>
> Dochchu' HemwI'; ruv mImlu'; tIchrup patlh;
> 'oy'moH muSHa'ghach 'Il vuvHa'lu'bogh;
> quvwI'pu' tuv quvHa'moH quvHa'wI'pu';
>
> (Hamlet, lut 'ay' wej, lut 'ay'Hom wa')
>
>"The proud one is perfectly rude; justice is delayed; rank is ready
>to insult; sincere hatred which is respected causes pain; dishonored
>ones dishonor the patient honored ones."
> [...]
>(By the way, the next line is {qatlh Hochvam lajqang vay'} "Why would
>anyone accept all of this?")
Doq:
>>I had no idea it was Hamlet.
No wonder you didn't recognize it. Here's the quote translated from
SeQpIr's "original Klingon" into the more familiar Elizabethan English
known in the Federation:
[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,]
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
BTW, it's from Hamlet's famous {taH pagh taHbe'} soliloquy (Act III, scene 1).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons