Timeline for What is the origin behind the line "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 9:27 | vote | accept | AncientSwordRage♦ | ||
| Sep 16, 2023 at 11:56 | comment | added | IMSoP | @BradV That doesn't sound all that ridiculous - it's called "India" only because British brewers marketed it for export to India, which tells nothing of where and how it was invented before it got that name, let alone how it developed into today's craft beers. (I'm not saying it was invented in Russia, just that it's not a particularly outlandish claim.) | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 20:38 | comment | added | BradV | I have a group of friends from Moscow who did contract work here in the US. One of them claimed in earnest that India Pale Ale (IPA) was created in Russia! | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 19:37 | comment | added | Michael Richardson | @SamAzon That was exactly what came to my mind when I first saw that movie. | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 15:13 | comment | added | Sam Azon | Wasn't it a recurring joke in TOS that Chekov would occasionally claim that the Russians had invented whatever-topic-was-under-discussion? | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 14:04 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/141/… | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 12:09 | comment | added | user888379 | There's a James Thurber piece where someone is arguing that "jamais plus" just works better than "nevermore" - the context being French translations of Poe. The next line is, "It loses something in the original." | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 11:38 | comment | added | releseabe | @PaulJohnson: Someone from ussr told me that the lightbulb was called something like The Light of Lenin (who in fairness did electrify rural russia but sure did not invent the electric light). The soviets may have done some good stuff for Russia and in some places Lenin and even Stalin are still revered. | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 11:10 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | The USSR had form more generally for claiming to have invented stuff, like Baseball. nytimes.com/1987/07/20/world/…. | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 10:58 | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | Meyer wrote the script, so this has to be the answer. But the Nazi reference seems oddly gratuitous, given that already Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, 2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801) had deemed the German Shakespeare translation by Schlegel and Tieck superior to the original. | |
| Sep 15, 2023 at 10:31 | history | answered | AncientSwordRage♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |