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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Who are you?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jun 5 12:53:22 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:53:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CADpKWq6h3kMB+C1BWnVgTY0DjipbQjY=yEQFcocSPJfa-wNAuA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> When you really have to say "Who are you?" - that specific question,
>> rather than {yIngu''egh} Identify yourself! - I spotted what might be
>> a contradiction.
>>
>> Conversational Klingon, that venerable old resource
>> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjBhGD2rFA), lists {SoH 'Iv} as "Who
>> are you?" (from 11:20 on the above page) ... but TKD says the
>> following:-
The "contradiction" may have arisen due to the following line in ST6 during
the Enterprise's unprovoked attack on Kronos One, right after the masked assassins beam aboard IIRC:
KOORD: SoH 'Iv jay'
[Who the hell are you? (untranslated)]
[<SoH 'Iv jay'? > (captions)]
Perhaps it's meant to be a bit of Clipped military jargon like "Who goes there?" in English. Possibly Koord (or more likely the actor) mis-spoke in the heat of the moment, but for whatever reason Okrand included it without comment in CK.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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