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 wroteI'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...You'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
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