[137] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: random (but hopefully interesting) question
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:17:09 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: rjc@devo.unify.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 23:37 PST
In-Reply-To: <9201251834.AA21691@binkley.MIT.EDU>
dcctdw@Athena.MIT.EDU writes:
| | I think the whole spiel associated with "taH pagh taHbe'" should be
| | avoided... (this probably borders on flaming; nothing personal to C.
| | Maise, but rather to Nick Meyer) Okrand invented the language without "to
| | be", and we should keep it that way, rather than accepting the kludge used
| | in ST6. imho, "to be or not to be" would be better translated as "to
| | survive or not to survive"...
Personally, I would have said "Heghbe` pagh Hegh"; it's much more
impressive. Just try to say that three times fast without spitting on
your audience (sometimes I wonder if I'm pronouncing "gh" properly if
I'm not)!
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