Oh, those Trek-savvy jokers in Cardiff: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/14/world/feat-klingon-wales-ufo-response/index.html
How knowledgeable were the folks at CNN who reported this?
Did they know Klingon?
Maybe they were actually replying in Welsh.
Damn. You beat me to it.
“In a late-breaking development, Wales appears to have been removed from Great Britain. Oceanfront property in Hereford and Shrewsbury is provoking enormous bidding wars… and here’s Tim Morton with the Business report.”
Klingon is Welsh! Duh! What, you think anyone in the world, even in SF fringefandom, would be nerdy-crazy-stupid enough to invent a whole artificial language for a fictional culture?!
If you’ve ever been out on a Saturday night in Cardiff you’ll know it’s difficult to tell the difference.
I, for one, find it interesting that Klingon doesn’t have words for “due” or “devolved”. I guess the Qo’Nosian parliament was never very big on due process.
What’s the Klingon for “daffodil”? :dubious:
“Human.”
Same as “tribble,” which is to say, same as “fur-booger.” And it’s the same in Welsh. (Wales was infested by tribbles, aka Englishmen, in 1214.)
I think I remember a Doctor Who episode about that…
Klingon is actually more comprehensible than Welsh.
Klingon and Welsh aren’t the same. Klingon has vowels.
I thought Klingon was based on Hungarian?
Well at least they didn’t use Quenya. That would have been inappropriate.
“Pansy” = “Human.”
My favorite Klingon in-joke is actually:
“Das” = “boot”
You realize, of course, that nouns are capitalized in German? :dubious:
Quite. *Sindarin *is much closer to Welsh.
Thanks. I was quoting from the Okrand dictionary by memory. He explained the joke.