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Bort - 2015-12-12

So I guess they decided early on that the Klingon language wouldn't have a verb for "to be", which is where the Hamlet monologue requires a substitution ("to continue"). Thing is, I can't find a really good essay about it, but if you dig deep enough into the roots of our English verb "to be", you find that its various forms come from pre-existing roots for concepts like "to dwell" and "to move". So it looks like some time after Proto-Indo-European started getting around, various peoples started seeing the need to describe existing as an abstract concept, and did their best with what they had.

"Hey Og, I think we need a new word for what you and I are doing."

"What, talking?"

"No, that thing we do and every other person does, but people who are dead don't do."

"You mean like hunt? Breathe? Move?"

"No! Trees do it, rocks do it, but airborne fish don't do it."

"Um ... float?"

It probably took them a while to figure this out.


Nominal - 2015-12-12

Russian also has no (present tense) verb for "to be". That's why it sounds like caveman talk when translated.


That guy - 2015-12-12

I want to like this.....?
The idea that someone would spend any time at all with this instead of actual Hamlet kinda kills me.

"fate's agressive torpedoes and phasers"
ffs

I like it more than Star Wars, how's that for an answer?


Nikon - 2015-12-13

It sounds better in the original Klingon.


EvilHomer - 2015-12-13

AH BOY, I'M JUST SO TIRED OF ALL THESE STAR WARS.


Nominal - 2015-12-13

That woman at 11:00 is way too cute to be involved in any of this.


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