If Klingon Google is not Klingon enough for you, you can head on over to MrKlingon.org and get important phrases translated for you into the galactic language of your choice, provided one of your choices is Vulcan, Romulan, or Klingon. “Where do you keep the chocolate?” is the sample phrase suggested. I tried, “I want you to take me from behind, pulling my hair, and penetrating me with your barbed genitalia please.” and got ” jIH [want] SoH Daq tlhap jIH vo’ [behind] [pulling] wIj jIb ‘ej [penetrating] jIH tlhej lIj [barbed] [genitalia] [please]” which seems incomplete as bracketed words are ones currently not in the database. Looks like Mr Klingon is a fun toy, but it is not going to work for my social interests.
The Klingon Language Institute has a phrasebook section and, although it did not offer a translation device, it did provide useful phrases such as “Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam” and “Hab SoSlI’ Quch!” meaning “Today is a good day to die” and “your mother has a smooth forehead” respectively.
I then checked out KlingonTranslator which is part of the Klingon Reference network. Sadly, it failed to translate my test sentence at all.
Linguistic professor Marc Okrand authored both the Klingon language (aka tlhIngan Hol) and the real world books the classic Klingon Dictionary and the more recent Klingon for the Galactic Traveler. I’m sure he would know the proper phrasing for me to use. Anyone have his email address?
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