[Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: "Let’s Translate Walter White, Taylor Swift, and More into"... Klingon

[Christopher Kidder-Mostrom]

There is one group of folks from this list that is actively translating a
number of songs into Klingon and recording them.  "HIchop" was our first.
"jIyIntaHvIS not qajegh" (Never Gonna Give You Up) will be coming out later
this summer in a shot-for-shot recreation of the Rick Astley video in
tlhIngan Hol & in Klingon garb.  More will follow.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:17 PM, nIqolay q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While I watch TV shows I frequently find myself jotting down short,
> memorable quotes and trying to translate them. A number of these
> require some context of the original.
>
> I tried translating "I am the one who knocks" from Breaking Bad a
> while ago, though there isn't really a single verb AFAIK that
> encapsulates all the meanings of knock; i.e. hitting a door to make a
> noise to request entrance. The full quote is "I am not in danger,
> Skyler. I AM the danger! A guy opens his door and gets shot and you
> think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!" Something like
> lojmItDaq jIloS jIH'e' might have a similar enough meaning. (Also, I
> also translated Breaking Bad itself as "batlhHa' vang".)
>
> For "The Wire" quote, I came up with voDleH DaHIvchugh DaqIpnIS though
> this loses some of the idiomatic nature of the original. Would
> DaqIpHa'be'nIS work for "need to not miss"? I'm not aware of a verb
> that means "miss a target".
>
> Some catchphrases from Game of Thrones... "Winter is Coming", the
> motto of House Stark, would be memorable, except I don't think we have
> a word for winter. A few weeks ago I translated the Oath of the
> Night's Watch (it was a slow weekend), though it's considerably longer
> than a catchphrase.
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dothraki is sure getting a lot of attention lately.
> >
> http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/breaking-bad-taylor-swift-translated-into-dothraki.html
> >
> > It strikes me that this is an opportunity to get some attention for
> Klingon
> > too. Maybe we can translate these and have someone record them and submit
> > them to Vulture, too, for a companion piece.
> >
> > "We are never ever ever getting back together" — Taylor Swift
> > "I am the one who knocks." — Walter White, Breaking Bad
> > "I drink your milkshake." — Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood
> > "That’s what she said." — Michael Scott, The Office
> > "May the force be with you." — Star Wars
> > "Live long and prosper."* — Spock, Star Trek
> > "You come at the king, you best not miss." — Omar Little, The Wire
> > "Talk to the hand ’cause the face ain’t listening." — the 90s
> > "That’s what the money’s for" — Don Draper, Mad Men
> >
> > *Since we know "Live long and prosper" was translated as {yIn nI' yISIQ
> 'ej
> > yIchep} by MO (for Radio Times), maybe we should substitute a suitable
> > catchphrase from Game of Thrones for this one. I'm not familiar enough
> with
> > that show to know what that would be, but surely one of you is.
> >
> > --
> > De'vID
> >
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Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Artistic Director, Commedia Beauregard
cokidder at cbtheatre.org




-- 
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Artistic Director, Commedia Beauregard
cokidder at cbtheatre.org
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