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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: HIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Nov 2 10:33:25 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:33:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4EB1522E.8040206@trimboli.name>
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Voragh:
>> rura' pente'Daq Soj, Doch,<luch?> vIqIch
>> "We is condemning [[sic! for {vIHIj}] food...
>> things and supplies to Rura Penthe." (ST6)
>>
>> N.B. This was an intentionally bad translation by Okrand because
>> Uhura's Klingon was rusty.
SuStel:
> In a world of Universal Translators, her Klingon was probably
> nonexistent. In which case she did a pretty good job!
According to the novel IIRC, someone had sabotaged the Universal Translator in an attempt to delay the Enterprise's rescue mission so Uhura - who in the novels was a gifted linguist - was forced to pull out her old books and do it manually.
> I wish I could peek inside those books they were using to do the
> translation. (Why were they using books instead of reading the
> information from a computer screen? Where is the library on the
> Enterprise?)
I always took that scene of Uhura et al. frantically paging through their Klingon-English dictionaries as a comment on the Klingonist fan community paging through their TKDs at Trek conventions.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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