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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon dialogue from the movie "Paul"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Dec 22 10:52:24 2011
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:51:13 -0800
To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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jISaHbe' is in the appendix to The Klingon Dictionary and jay' is
four pages later, but it really takes some understanding of the
translation process to make that leap. I know I'd freak out had I
gone to see a movie and discovered that kind of random Klingon.
At 05:19 22/12/2011, De'vID jonpIn wrote:
>jIHvaD ja' vay', jatlh: jIH'a' much "Paul" Daleghchugh, tlhIngan Hol
>jatlhlu' 'e' DaQoylaH. jIH'a' muchvam vIlegh vIneHbe'mo', YouTubeDaq
>muchvam 'ay'Hom vISam.
>
>tlhIngal Hol jatlhlu'bej. jatlh vay': {jISaHbe' jay'}. 'etlh je'
>neHlaw' ghaH 'ach wagh 'ej yapbe' HuchDaj. jIH'a' muchvamDaq latlh
>tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu''a'? much qonwI'pu' QaH'a' vay'?
>
>SKI: Someone told me the movie "Paul" had Klingon in it. I watched a
>clip in YouTube where someone says {jISaHbe' jay'}. The subtitle was
>"f--- that". The context was he wanted to buy a sword, but didn't
>have enough money, so he exclaimed that he hadn't wanted it after all.
> Were there other Klingon lines in the movie? Did the writers have
>help (i.e., from the KLI)? (I ask because that's actually not a bad
>translation, given the context, and it's much better than the usual
>look-up-each-word which would probably have resulted in something like
>*{ngagh vetlh}.)
>
>--
>De'vID
>
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