[84702] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Earthlings DVD (was qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Mon May 19 13:49:38 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:48:15 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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In a message dated 5/19/2008 11:52:22 AM Central Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> >>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).
>
The trailer has English subtitles for this text.
'Iv jatlhwI'? vIghovbe'.
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