[Tlhingan-hol] Star Trek: Axanar - Help needed with Klingon terms!

[Christopher Kidder-Mostrom]

Whoops!  Forgot to mention that Jeremy Cowan is also part of the
translation team.


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom <
cokidder at cbtheatre.org> wrote:

> Felix's suggestions are what was used in the film.  Felix, Chris L, and I
> are the ones doing the Klingon for the movie.  l don't understand why they
> came to the list as I am on staff of the movie.
> On Aug 2, 2014 3:44 PM, "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 2, 2014, at 11:57 AM, "Peter Walker" <peter at startrekphase2.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The terms are translated into English after they are spoken, but we
>> would
>> > like to write the terms in the original Klingon.
>>
>> It would be a lot easier and a lot more effective if the terms had been
>> "in the original Klingon" to begin with. There's a word, {HIgh} "fight
>> dirty", that fits the idea well but doesn't lend itself to the presented
>> translation. Indeed, *nothing* in Klingon grammar is a straightforward
>> "least X", even when X is a noun.
>>
>> There's a special kind of irritation evoked by a Star Trek work claiming
>> that some Klingon term is "literally translated as" some English phrase
>> when the English presents a phrasing which simply does not happen in
>> Klingon. It would work so much better to call it "roughly" or
>> "colloquially" translated.
>>
>> I cannot improve on Felix's suggestions.
>>
>> -- ghunchu'wI'
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Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
Artistic Director, Commedia Beauregard
cokidder at cbtheatre.org
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