Quote:robkelk wrote:Yeah, tlHingan Hol (if I've spelt that correctly) is long on imperatives, short on politeness. Much like the people who speak it.Quote:ECSNorway wrote:I recall hearing the closest translators could get to "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?" was "Inform me immediately how to get to Sesame Street"...Quote:ClassicDrogn wroteYou'd probably also still sound like you were making a challenge to a duel if you said "It's nice to meet you" in Klingon, but that probably has as much to do with Klingon customs as the language )I've occasionally joked that the proper idiomatic translation of the Klingon standard "Hello" greeting is closer to "What the f*** do you want?" than anything else...
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