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.
Your knowledge of Klingon curses is impressive. But as a Romulan might say, only a vahruul would use such language in public.
I can’t imagine Klingons having a concept of “polite language” or otherwise
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.
Okay I’m sorry for stabbing you with my dress battleth
‘Such a boorish person! Fighting with his salad mek’leth when it is desert!!’
Yeah, you don’t normally expect a lot of salad in the desert after all
Effing speech to text…
That so offensive that it doesn’t even deserve fighting back! From now on you are ostracized from this house!
Pffft. Who cares what Romulans say.