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Re: Web Page Translation to Klingon



I looked at one attempt so far and winced a bit.

Meanwhile, I find this very difficult to translate because 
it is not expressed very clearly in English, assuming that 
context will fill in a lot of what is not said. It takes 
some digging to got to the meaning from which I can 
translate something that heavily relies of sentence 
fragments in a kind of pseudo-sensationalist format that 
would annoy any Klingon.

[sigh]

Okay.

I'll try.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:33:24 -0600 Steven Boozer 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ralf Laue wrote:
> : We feel that it would not be political correct to exclude great parts of
> : the galaxies from our record translation. For this reason, I wonder whether
> : some of you would be able to send us a translation to Klingon.
> : It's just a very short text, not much work. And of course the translator
> : can add a link to his / her home page to the translated web page. (A
> : link to KLI would also be a good idea).
> : The English version of the text can be found at
> :      http://www.rekordfestival.de/english.html.
> : The translation can be done using an online form. Maybe the text "Venue:
> : Flensburg, Germany" should be replaced by "Flensburg, Germany, planet
> : Earth".
> 
> Since the list has been rather quiet, I figured we could do this as a group
> effort online.  To get us started, here's the English text (the bracketed items
> in caps are web links and should probably not be translated):
> 
>   Flensburg 2000 - We Invite You!

*valenSeburgh* cha'SaD -- Ha'!
 
>   The strongest men, the best artists, the funniest world records.
>   We beat all records - at the Festival of World Records 2000. 
>
>   Date: 7.-9. 7. 2000, Venue: Flensburg, Germany

tera' DIS cha'SaD jar Soch jaj Soch tagh lop le'qu'. 
qaStaHvIS cha' jaj taH. tera' qun ta'mey ta'Hommey je 
lujuvlu'pu'bogh DIqel. 'aqroS luchavbogh wanI'mey'e' neH 
DIqel 'ej qaStaHvIS lopvam, qun ta'mey DIjuS 'e' wIHech. 
loDpu'ma' HoS law' Hoch HoS puS. Hewmey'e' bey'mey'e' je 
chenmoHbogh nuvpu'ma' 'IH law' Hoch 'IH puS. tlhaQchu' 'op 
ta'meymaj.

>   supported by:
> 
>     [FLENSBURG  (link)]
>     [AMAZON.COM (link)]

nuQaHta':

      [valenSeburgh]
      ['ama'SanDatqam]
 
>   Information: for tourists / for record breakers and journalists

bIjeS DaneHchugh qoj jubej DaneHchugh, yIlaDtaH.
 
>   This web page should also become a world record: the most translated 
>   web page!  Please help! Send us translations in more languages by e-mail 
>   or directly from a web page. 

Holmey'e' lo'bogh QInvam law' law' Hoch law' puS wIneH. 
ghoQaH! De'vam yImugh 'ej gholab. 
 
>   This web page has been translated to 27 languages so far:

cha'maH chorgh Hol lo'pu' QInvam:
 
>   [BENGALI - CLASSICAL GREEK - CROATIAN - CZECH - DUTCH - ENGLISH - ESPERANTO]
>   [FINNISH - FRENCH - GERMAN - GLOSA - GREEK - HEBREW - HUNGARIAN -
> INTERLINGUA]
>   [ITALIAN - LATIN - LITHUANIAN - NORWEGIAN - POLISH - PORTUGESE - RUSSIAN]
>   [SLOVAK - SPANISH - SWEDISH - THAI - TURKISH]
 
tlhIngan Hol je.
 
> First off, how to render a world "record", a la Guiness?  A "record, file" {ta}
> refers to things like personnel records and files: {ghotpu' tamey} "personnel
> files", {tamey ngo'} "archives", {may' ta} "record of battle".  Other options
> are {ta'} "deed, accomplishment, {ngoq} "goal, purpose", or even {DoS} "target"
> perhaps?
 
Consider what I've done and let me know what you think. I 
do have a reputation to maintain for saying things 
considered difficult to express well with the language.
 
> -- 
> Voragh                       
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

charghwI' 'utlh



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