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Fluent Klingon Linguist Needed for Witty Retort

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Date: 2006-09-16, 10:31PM PDT


If you are reading this post, you have probably experienced the same thing as I, and dozens of other witty geeks - a visit to the Star Trek Experience at the Vegas Hilton. And, as the gravitational pull would prescribe, you have found your face in a Warp Core Breach cocktail, possibly after having eaten half of your ‘Wrap of Kahn’ when a full-on Klingon comes to your table to engage you in aggressive banter.

If he asks you if you are familiar with the 2nd law of thermodynamics, what can you say? Even as an astrophysicist, when confronted by a roving Klingon in Vegas, you get a little tongue-tied.

Please, tell us how to respond.

I would like to say (in Klingon)

“Language is the House of Being. In its home, man dwells. I’m not sure if you are welcome.”

Can you make some other suggestions as to witty retorts?

Can you spell them phonetically in Klingon/English. Or can you just call my VM and leave the quote, then its translation, then say it slowly again?

Thanks ever so much.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Say this in Klingonese: "Have you ever kissed a girl?"

[Deja Q]

2. I haven't. But I can only speak it in English...

Or HTML. :spray:

[JHB]

3. Jeez, does this bring back memories....

Back in college, my bunch would trade insults in Sindarin (the language of Tolkien's elves).

Not "snaps" back & forth, but just little add-ons to messages to each other, which the recipient would have to figure out exactly what was said, then top it. Not exactly a spectator sport, but a stimulating exercise for the participants.