tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 05 09:53:20 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Who are you?"
Fiat Knox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> When you really have to say "Who are you?" - that specific question,
>> rather than {yIngu''egh} Identify yourself! - I spotted what might be
>> a contradiction.
>>
>> Conversational Klingon, that venerable old resource
>> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjBhGD2rFA), lists {SoH 'Iv} as "Who
>> are you?" (from 11:20 on the above page) ... but TKD says the
>> following:-
The "contradiction" may have arisen due to the following line in ST6 during
the Enterprise's unprovoked attack on Kronos One, right after the masked assassins beam aboard IIRC:
KOORD: SoH 'Iv jay'
[Who the hell are you? (untranslated)]
[<SoH 'Iv jay'? > (captions)]
Perhaps it's meant to be a bit of Clipped military jargon like "Who goes there?" in English. Possibly Koord (or more likely the actor) mis-spoke in the heat of the moment, but for whatever reason Okrand included it without comment in CK.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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