tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 24 12:43:39 2000
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Re: KLBC - Conversational Klingon
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC - Conversational Klingon
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:43:08 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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While others have pretty much recreated it as I remember
it, I'll just note that if necessary, I do have the literal
translation of this segment. It was placed on the sound
chip for a Klingon paperweight I have at home. It's like
one of those snow-man globes, only instead of a snow scene
in the globe with white floating stuff, it is an outer
space scene with a Bird of Prey. Shake it and sparkles
shimmer.
I don't know why.
Anyway, turn it on and things light up and it plays a sound
chip that includes all these lines from the beginning of
CK. A card comes with it with a transcription and
translation for everything in the conversation.
For the sake of consistency (instead of spreading it all
across several Emails), I'll repeat what I remember as the
correct lines:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:06:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) Mike
Crane <[email protected]> wrote:
> For no apparent reason I decided to translate the intro to
> the Conversational Klingon tape. After slowing it down and
> listening to it over and over this is what I got:
>
> Okrand: tuch Qu' choH
> I forbid you to change mission
tujqu'choH QuQ - The engines are overheating. [The next
syllable was the end of the previous exclammation.]
> Woman: Qor nughoS jaH
> The battle is approaching us
nughoS chaH. They are approaching us.
> Man: chay' jura'
> What are your orders?
>
> Woman: Qu'vatlh
> *%&#!
>
> Okrand: vaj maHegh. cha yIghuS
> In that case, we die. Stand by torpedoes.
batlh maHegh. We die honorably. cha yIghuS. Stand by
torpedoes.
> Man: So'wI' yIchu'Ha'
> Disengage cloaking device.
>
> Woman: baH
> Fire!
>
> Okrand: bIjeghbe'chugh vaj biHegh! thlIngan maH!
> Surrender or die! We are Klingon!
>
> Is this all correct? I couldn't quite get the Woman's first
> line (her second was clear enough)
>
> Mike
charghwI'