[87567] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Odd Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Dec 30 15:18:41 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:13:14 -0600
In-Reply-To: <c2ff8bd10912301150p279428cbi365646fffd8421a6@mail.gmail.com>
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Alex Greene:
>> On occasion I get asked to translate some weird things into Klingon.
>> The latest was this weekend, when a friend in a state of
>> inebriation asked me for help in translating "Where's the porn?"
bI'reng:
>Bah. Humans and their subtlety. {{{;-)
>tuQHa'wI' HI'ang!
Klingons have slang, too. For example, you might say that you're going to look at some "naked stars" ({Hovmey Huv}?)! <g>
For those too young to remember:
"If there are gods, they do not help, and justice belongs to the strong: but know that all things done before the naked stars are remembered."
-- John Ford, _The Final Reflection_ (1984), p.23 et passim.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
