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To: JoeProBono

The best part of STVI was translating “To be or not to be” into Klingon, a language which doesn’t have the verb “to be” in it.


3 posted on 08/29/2010 4:05:41 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?Five?No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.)
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To: Tanniker Smith
The best part of STVI was translating “To be or not to be” into Klingon, a language which doesn’t have the verb “to be” in it.

Klingons make up for that shortcoming by having the final bat'leth fight in Hamlet result in actual fatalities.

(yes, I'm a Trek geek, but I had to look up the Klingon weapon name.)

I've heard that Chinese also doesn't have "to be" either. I wonder how they handle it in translations of Hamlet.

19 posted on 08/29/2010 4:45:05 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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