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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon spoken in latest Big Bang Theory?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Wed May 16 10:33:56 2012
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001BE60@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
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--- On Wed, 5/16/12, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> De'vID jonpIn:
> > Did anyone catch the last episode?=A0 It's called
> "The Countdown
> > Reflection" and Wolowitz goes to space.=A0 At one
> point, Sheldon speaks
> > Klingon.=A0 He says part of a sentence before
> getting interrupted and is
> > forced to continue in English.=A0 Did anyone catch
> what he said?
> > =
> > I think the first word was {DaH} but as soon as he said
> it other
> > characters talked over him.=A0 But he seems to have
> said more than just
> > {DaH}.
> =
> I heard the first word as {DaHjaj}.=A0 The closed
> captions were of no help, just something like "Speaks
> Klingon".=A0 =
>
I also heard {DaHjaj}. I'd be very surprised if they wrote more than a few =
words for him, and I doubt it had anything really to do with his speech in =
English (which did not contain the word "Today", as I recall).
> I did notice a "translator" listed as the credits flashed
> by, but this could have referred to the Russian translations
> in the episode.=A0 (Wolowitz is launched into space on a
> Russian rocket to the International Space Station and there
> was some dialogue with ground control in Kazakhstan.)
What I caught made perfect sense, I just wonder if it was technically accur=
ate. If so, then I now know that "Blast off!" in Russian is "poshol" (lite=
rally "It went!"), which is kind of neat.
-- ter'eS
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