City Councilman Resigns Using Klingon

Virtucon writes "A city councilman in Indian Trail Town, North Carolina has resigned and opted to write his letter of resignation in Klingon. David Waddell is obviously a fan of Star Trek. I wonder if the other council members know what the hell he wrote? I'm sure a nice Qu'vatlh would have sufficed."

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[MrEricSir]

This NY Daily article has much more info [nydailynews.com], including the resignation letter.

My favorite part is the mayor's response: "I wish him the best, live long and prosper. I don't know what else to say."

Re:I'm guessing..

[Bill_the_Engineer]

It looks like he was a buffoon. He voted no on everything including adjournment of the meetings. To top it off, it looks like the only reason he resigned was because he got bored and wanted to perform one last stunt. No one was forcing him to resign.

The icing on the cake being that the idiot still plans to attend the meetings.

Re:Klingons do not resign.

[mrchaotica]

You're right! From the nydailynews article [nydailynews.com]:

The language continues to evolve thanks to the Klingon Language Institute, a nonprofit that promotes the language and culture. KLI founder Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen told the News that there isn't really a word for "resignation" in Klingon so Waddell translated the English word with the language's orthography, "which really doesn't work."

A true Klingon speaker would have simply said "pItlh," which translates to "done," in order to mark the end of an event.