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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Star Trek: Axanar - Help needed with Klingon terms!
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Star Trek: Axanar - Help needed with Klingon terms!
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:32:35 +0200
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ghunchu'wI':
> It would be a lot easier and a lot more effective if the terms had been "in the original Klingon" to begin with. There's a word, {HIgh} "fight dirty", that fits the idea well but doesn't lend itself to the presented translation. Indeed, *nothing* in Klingon grammar is a straightforward "least X", even when X is a noun.
Actually, in context, {HIgh} doesn't really work for the idea they
were trying to convey. The Klingons were not fighting disrespectfully
in the sense of using dirty tactics. They were fighting
disrespectfully in the sense of, to use a Terran phrase, fighting with
one's hands tied behind one's back. That is, they looked down so much
on the Federation that they deliberately crippled themselves to give
the Federation a fighting chance, thus showing the maximum amount of
disrespect to their enemies.
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De'vID
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