[tlhIngan Hol] STID canon

[SuStel]

On 9/7/2016 10:44 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Don't worry if the subtitle isn't a precise grammatical match for the Klingon.
>
> Sometimes the English line is just too colloquial for Okrand to translate literally, so he gives an approximation.  Sometimes the movie people re-word the subtitle after the Klingon has been provided and filmed.  And sometimes they even replace the subtitle with a completely different one -- resulting in some very creative new vocabulary by Okrand.
>
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> Voragh
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mayqel qunenoS
>>
>>> potlhmo' batlh, vIqawba'.
>>> Because you care about honor.
>> Is this surely correct ?
>>
>> I read "honor because it is important, I obviously remember it". If this
>> translation is correct, shouldn't we have instead {potlhmo' batlh 'e'
>> vIqawba'} ?

I don't know what the full, original line was, or if this was a 
lip-syncing moment, but//if I were translating /because you care about 
honor,/ I would have gone for *batlh DaSaHmo'.*

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