klingon_story1-7  Exercise 2: The Joke
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The joke: the book presents the Klingon text as the "original" and the English
as the version, claiming Shakespeare was really a Klingon ("Wil'yam
Sheq'spir") and the human Shakespeare a Federation invention.

What it allows: the translators do not have to be faithful to the English.
The Klingon text can differ from it in ways meant to look Klingon, and can be
judged as an original, so the translators can show what the language can do
rather than follow the English word for word.