Re: Unfortunate character name


"Kurt Busiek" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-11-23 17:12:29 -0800, wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx (William December Starr)
said:

"What could be more fun
than translating the Sesame Street theme song into Klingon and
discovering that 'Sunny day, chasing the clouds away' comes back
as 'Day of the daytime star, the clouds are filled with dread and
forced to flee'?"
-- Gavin Edwards, in WIRED Magazine, Aug. 1996

Sex?

kdb

PS - Admittedly, that translation's fun, but my "more fun than that" list
would be pretty long...

Don't get him started on Klingon mating rituals. Talk about bloody.

-- Ken from Chicago


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