[Tlhingan-hol] A Klingon Christmas Carol -- wab ta yIQoy

[Terrence Donnelly]

I am beyond proud that they closed out the segment with my translation of "Wild Thing"!

-- ter'eS

--- On Fri, 12/23/11, De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] A Klingon Christmas Carol -- wab ta yIQoy
> To: "KLI" <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> Date: Friday, December 23, 2011, 7:29 AM
> ghunchu'wI' 'utlh::
> > WGN radio in Chicago interviewed the director and two
> actors from A
> > Klingon Christmas Carol this morning. There's a brief
> bit from a phone
> > call they placed earlier to Dr. Schoen, some silly
> repeated sound
> > snippets of Captain Picard speaking Klingon --
> {jIlajneS. ghIj qet
> > jaghmeyjaj} from TNG's _Sins of the Father_ -- and a
> very well done
> > excerpt from the beginning of the second act of the
> play. Listen to
> > the recording here:
> >
> > http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/brandmeier/wgnam-klingon-christmas-carol-christopher-kidder-122211,0,5717398.mp3file
> 
> Dunqu'!  loQ jatlhHa' chaH, 'ach cha'DIch vIQoypu'DI'
> vIyajchu'.
> 
> I really wish the actors on TV Star Trek put that much
> effort into
> their onscreen Klingon.  I'm pretty sure I understood
> everything.
> Everyone should listen to this, the pronunciation isn't
> perfect but
> it's much better than most of what passes for Klingon on
> television.
> 
> I took the liberty of transcribing what I heard (the scene
> they
> perform begins just after the 8 minute mark into the
> interview),
> please let me know if anyone heard anything different:
> 
> D = DaHjaj qeylIS qa'
> S = SI'Quja
> 
> D - SI'Quja! lojmIt yIpoSmoH. jI'elnIS.
> S - vIghIjlu'
> D - not qoHpu''e' neH ghIjlu'. bIHeghvIpchugh bIHeghpu'.
> tlhIngan SoH'a'? HIqaD!
> S - jIDoy'.
> D - SI'Quja!
> S - lu'. yIghoS.
> D - naDev yIghoS 'ej HISov. mururbogh vay' Dalegh'a'?
> S - HIja'. qaSov. qa-
> D - DaHjaj qeylIS qa' jIH.
>     yItlhap, yItlhutlh!
> S - nuq 'oH?
> D - tlhIngan toDuj HIq ngaS HIvje'wIj'e'. yItlhutlh!
> S - vItlhutlhnIS 'e' DaHar'a'?
> D - tlhutlhnISlu'chugh vay' DatlhutlhnIS SoH, SI'Quja!
>     DaH, mopwIj yIHot.  ngaj poHmaj 'ej
> Dochmey law' DaleghnIS.
> S - HIDev.
> 
> (scene - pItlh!)
> 
> -- 
> De'vID
> 
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