Speaking Klingon

[Rigu Ryu]

My friend just got a Klingon-to-English dictionary. His MSN name is in Klingon, and I was wondering if any of you could translate it for me.

nuqDaq yuch Dapol?

Thanks in advance! ^_^  

[Rigu Ryu]

Found out what it means. It is a very important phrase to remember if you are ever visiting the Klingon homeworld.

"nuqDaq yuch Dapol?" translates to "Where is the chocolate?"

As I said, very important phrase to know. ^_^  

[todpury]

I have a KSL book myself. I was studying it nightly, but if made my brain hurt. I think I have to look back throw what I did to learn French and use those techniqes. Seriously though, there are insane things dealing with suffixs, how I'll ever remember the order I'm not sure.  

[Steel Sterling]

Literally, it is "Where do you keep the chocolate?"

It is the one Klingon sentence I memorized, since I figured I might
actually get to use it in conversation.

I DID get to use it in conversation, in fact.

At Worldcon 2004, the world's biggest Science Fiction Convention.
It was within a few hour's drive of me this year.
(2005 is in Switzerland, 2006 is in California.)
Anyway, one room party was a birthday party for a guy from the
Klingon language institute.
We were doing singalongs in full Klingon.
The scary thing is I could pronounce the lettering on the page,
even though they had to explain the translations for us.

When I walked in, I addressed the guy at the door
with that very sentence.
Poor guy didn't know Klingon, and got roped into door duty.
When I translated, he pointed to the food table,
which had chocolate.
No gagh, though, and I wasn't sure how I felt about that.

No matter what we sang, it always sounded a lot more butch when
translated into Klingon.
There was a song for the language institute.
It sounded like a warchant, but the sentences were things like
"We like words, words help us communicate."
There was also one to the Empire, where the last sentence ended
with
"or we will crush them beneath our *ing boots."
Amazingly enough,
that also ended the language song, I think.  

[Rigu Ryu]

*laughs* Your story amuses me to no end.

Although frankly, I've just about given up on English. I'm thinking about communicating telepathically with people, now. ^_^  

[Shiva_Avalon]

does anyone know of a online translator for Klingon to English?  

[Lord Spyderguy]

Shiva_Avalon

does anyone know of a online translator for Klingon to English?

nope but i have a dictionary too.  

[Rigu Ryu]

Shiva_Avalon

does anyone know of a online translator for Klingon to English?

Try the KLI. (The Klingon Language Institute.)  

[Steel Sterling]

Shiva_Avalon

does anyone know of a online translator for Klingon to English?

I've got a link somewhere for that.....  

[Shiva_Avalon]

Steel Sterling

Shiva_Avalon

does anyone know of a online translator for Klingon to English?

I've got a link somewhere for that.....

will you please find it for me? *puppy eyes*  

[Steel Sterling]

http://members.aol.com/JPKlingon/uta/  

[Blacke Rose]

*Sniff* I'm just a broke Sophmore... I can't afford dictionaries. I have to keep anything like that in my head. Speaking of french, I had a petition last year with 1,574 signatures from around the school district to add a Klingon course. Leagally, they would have been required to do it, but they couldn't find a teacher. We were that close to having a school klingon class... Now, I'm just in lousy french. Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir? Ou est le salle de bain? J'ai un poulet dans un abre de poirs. Je ne suis pas ton balai, and the like. *Thinks for a moment* Ou est la chocolate? Or, Ou est-ce que tu a la chocolate?  

[Spockk]

Thank you for the link! I have now memorised as much Vulcan as I can xp .  

[Shuromai]

Jim periKH don nova re'iKH'daangu TaKHnalanti?
Anyone?  

[Karhd]

Where can i get that dictionary I've been looking but I can't find one anywhere. sad