<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Sep 7, 2018, at 23:47, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 05:45, James Stephenson <<a href="mailto:c4p7.fl1n7@gmail.com">c4p7.fl1n7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I wonder if something similar goes on in Klingon, not with animals,<br>
but with computers that have a natural language interface. Would a<br>
Klingon who used such a computer regularly start to unconsciously<br>
refer to the computer as a ghaH?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This doesn't directly answer your question, but in English, ships are "she", while in Klingon, they're {'oH}. While Federation ships talk (or their computers do), the only instance I can recall of a Klingon talking ship or computer is in Discovery. (There's a scene where a device announces something about atmospheric pressurisation to L'Rell, but it's very brief and she does not refer to the device by a pronoun. But in any case, the Klingon wasn't written by Okrand.)</div><div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In Star Trek III, when (SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!) the Klingon crew boards the Enterprise while the self destruct sequence is activated, one of Kruge’s officers reports “… <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the bridge appears to be run by computer. It is the only thing speaking.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unfortunately, the audience’s universal translator was stuck in the on state for this scene so perhaps we’ll never know exactly how that line was delivered in the original Klingon.</span></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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