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ummthatguy @lemmy.world

3mo ago

Picard can give as good as he gets

TNG s4e24 "The Mind's Eye"

There's no official translation for the words, just assumed insults.

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Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But as a Romulan might say, only a vahruul would use such language in public.
- I can't imagine Klingons having a concept of "polite language" or otherwise
  
  The culture is intensely subtext based. There are different meanings for how you strike someone. They have rituals for all sorts of everyday tasks, each full of right and wrong ways to do things.
  Any culture that has that much subtext in it has language taboos.
  
  The episode where they are doing some kind of court case and there is a Klingon lawyer threw my entire perception of Klingons for a loop. If they have lawyers, what other weird jobs do they have you might not expect from a warrior race? Like... How does one find honor as a sanitation worker? They have to have those, right? 🤔
- Pffft. Who cares what Romulans say.

Sike! That's the wrong isolinear chip!

I can only assume he called Picard a Sho'vah and Picard responded with "I die free."
- Shal'kek nem'ron!

B.... B'aka!

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