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Re: Klingon on road signs!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 25 20:30:04 1993

Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Jim Nelson <jnelson@plains.nodak.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date:    Fri, 25 Jun 93 15:40:37 CDT
In-Reply-To: <MAILQUEUE-101.930625095101.416@fs1.metallurgy.umist.ac.uk>; from 

Sayeth A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk:
> 
>   BBC 1 (a British TV channel) Ceefax (page 175) on Fri 25 June 1993 around
> 7am said that around an (unnamed) town in Minnesota (USA) where there is a
> Star Trek fans convention, signs have been put up reading "Doq ngeng pum Daq
> majghos nadey hingan hol jathu", stated to mean "Welcome, Klingon language
> spoken here.". (Thus spelt in the Ceefax report: not known where the
> misspellings got in. Looks like a typist misreading someone's scribble.)
> 

I believe it was Red Lake Falls, MN.  It's a couple hours from where I live.
I can get more info on it if anyone wants it.  Just let me know.

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