
My good friend Elyse just told me "Nikto" is the Slovak word for "no one". And that got me thinking. Klaatu is the alien's name and at the start of a sentence in the alien language, it acts as a trigger for the robot, or perhaps it's how you do Imperative tense in their syntax. So the phrase is basically:
"Klaatu [says] ____________ no one."
And finally we have it. "Barada" will have to be "destroy". Klaatu says: Destroy no one. Makes perfect sense!
If Gort is of Slovak design, of course.
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