Request for translation check
Hi!
I have a one-minute Klingon Opera that I used an online translator to create the Klingon text. I know those are unreliable and don’t know how to properly translate some things yet. Could someone check the Klingon and send fixes for any of the errors? I haven’t included the whole script, just the lines of dialogue with the online translator Klingon and what I fed into it in English in parentheses to make it more concise. Thank you!
Kratok: qawlu’ jawbe’ joy’qang ‘e’ vIpIH tlhIngan wo’ pong yIH ‘oy’naQ ‘oy’yaS!
(No longer will the Klingon Empire be tormented by the Tribble scourge!)
Kratok: qaw qun DaHjaj!
(History will remember this day!)
Kezkhe: legh qun DaHjaj.
(History will look down upon this day.)
Kratok: Qapla’!
(Success!)
Kezkhe: pagh batlh naDev tu’lu’.
(There is no honor here.)
Kratok: je tun, puqwI’. Hegh rIntaH yIH!
(You are too soft, my daughter. Death to the Tribbles!)
Kezkhe: Qo’ vIyaj!
(You don’t understand!)
Kratok: maHvaD muv, puqwI’; jIHvaD quvHa’ SoH!
(Join us, daughter; you dishonor me!)
Kezkhe: Hoch tuHmoH maH pong. Qo’.
(We are all dishonored by this. No.)
Kratok: vaj qaSjaj.
(So be it.)
Kezkhe: SuvwI’ ‘Iv jagh Hoch HoH vup.
(Pity the warrior who slays all his foes.)
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WALTAH.
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Greetings.
Online Klingon translators produce gibberish. For example, your first line:
qawlu’ jawbe’ joy’qang ‘e’ vIpIH tlhIngan wo’ pong yIH ‘oy’naQ ‘oy’yaS!
is pretty much nonsense and means something like:
One is remembered, he does not chat, he is willing to torture, I expect that, the tribble’s painstick’s painofficer names the Klingon empire
There’s no way to suggest fixes to fix this. The whole thing would have to be retranslated from scratch. A few of the lines are okay-ish, like the Qapla’ line, but on a whole it’s all bad.
Ah dang, I knew online translators were going to give me some gibberish, but I had hoped some of this was correct! Would someone be able to translate the English dialogue into the correct Klingon? Much appreciated.
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