[86772] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Safe Auto Commercial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Nov 2 10:23:01 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:20:11 -0600
In-Reply-To: <4ae6621e.0e0bca0a.3918.0db3@mx.google.com>
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naHQun:
> Just saw a Safe Auto ad where this guy ends up saying something in
> Klingon. I didn't hear what he said due to screaming children,
> but the screen clearly said "Klingon".
> Anybody catch it?
I saw it twice over the weekend. I couldn't understand what the actor said, but it sounded like only a couple of syllables including one that *may* have been {HoH} (a clipped {yIHoH}?). The subtitle on the screen read:
KLINGON: [Eliminate the middleman.]
*If* Okrand had anything to do with this - and he might well have since SafeAuto is a national insurance company - I would expect something like:
Duy (yI)HoH!
Kill the agent/emissary!
*'oSwI' (yI)HoH!
Kill the representative!
Hopefully someone can record and listen to this line carefully. For those watching for it, the commercial begins with the Rocket Scientist Guy signing for a package at his front door. This is an "Alien Dialect Simulator" which he unwraps and sets up in his lab: it's a helmet plus microphone contraption which he puts on his head. He says a few phrases in English, repeating each one translated into various "alien dialects" including Klingon (which comes about 2/3 of the way into the commercial).
FYI: SafeAuto.com has archived 44 of its commercials at:
http://www.safeauto.com/about/commercials/
Unfortunately this new one hasn't been uploaded yet. Stay tuned.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
