The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, September 8, 2008
Don't mess with the new bishop

The LDS church announced that the number of copies of Book of Mormon printed has topped 140 million — in more than 100 languages.

All of which didn't thrill me much until I learned that one of those languages is Klingon! Check out the translation of the highly appropriate BOM 1 Nephi 1:
Yea, I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.

In Klingon is:
paq vIghItlh vavwI' Holmo', SoHbogh jewpu' lurDechmey je 'ejipnganpu' Hol.
Apparently the mass conversion of the boney headed, short-tempered warrior race is well underway.

And you thought ward basketball was bad now.
posted by gwarchol @ 11:29 AM |

1 Comments:

At September 8, 2008 2:22 PM , Blogger Alienated Wannabe said...

Dear Glen,

In the my JPS edition, the text looks more like this:

paq vIghItlh vavwI' Holmo', SoHbogh jewpu' lurDechmey je 'ejipnganpu' Hol. (1 Ne. 1:2)

Thanks for the chuckle.

A.W.

 

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