TNG s4e24 “The Mind’s Eye”

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

  • @Stiffneckedppl
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    331 month ago

    Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But as a Romulan might say, only a vahruul would use such language in public.

    • Aa!
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      321 month ago

      I can’t imagine Klingons having a concept of “polite language” or otherwise

      • mosiacmango
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        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.

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          181 month ago

          Okay I’m sorry for stabbing you with my dress battleth

          • @marcos
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            41 month ago

            That so offensive that it doesn’t even deserve fighting back! From now on you are ostracized from this house!

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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        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? 🤔

        • Aa!
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          51 month ago

          Ezri got it right about the Klingons. In Enterprise, Martok told us that the younger generations all wanted to be warriors,. In ds9, Klingon lawyers saw themselves as warriors, on the battlefield of the courtroom.

          Cultural evolution is weird, and in retrospect, not always right

  • Optional
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    111 month ago

    Sike! That’s the wrong isolinear chip!

  • aviationeast
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    111 month ago

    I can only assume he called Picard a Sho’vah and Picard responded with “I die free.”