quoting Hamlet in the original Klingon

[qurgh]

Klingonska’s database is sorely out of date. Try https://hol.kag.org for a more current dictionary of words.

Hamlet is available from Pocketbooks from https://amzn.to/3Tyroaf

I don’t have a copy at hand to lookup the lines.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by  qurgh.

[bIrchoH]

Buying from Amazon is precisely what I was trying to avoid. Nevertheless, thanks for your reply.

[bIrchoH]

In the meantime, I went to my local bookstore. They ordered it for me and said it might take more than a week. I will post the quote I asked for as soon as possible.

[bIrchoH]

I got the book in the meantime, checked, and postponed posting the answer to my own question due to a lot of distress and so on, as stated elsewhere. The original Klingon obviously differs from the English translation:

’ach tIq, yISIQ neH; tamnISlI’mo’ jatwI’.

What I had come up with (having used the outdated dictionary mentioned above before asking) wasn’t necessarily appropriate for a reconstruction:

but: ’a or ’ach.

I had expected tIqwIj due to the English version.

‘break’ made me expect yIghor if the verb was supposed to be read as an imperative.

‘hold’ is ’uch, but I had wondered whether it fits here, especially since it would be inappropriate to expect Klingons to use expressions similar to those of Terrans, whether they speak DIvI’ Hol or any other language.

I had expected ‘my tongue’ to be jatwIj; at least this once, the translation fits the original Klingon.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by  bIrchoH.