[Tlhingan-hol] "Klingon" in parody of Coke commercial

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Apparently, the initial translation came from Bing, but the singer didn't know how to pronounce them, so the subtitler then made up new subtitles to match the singing.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/1x47k5/rejected_languages_from_cokes_multilingual_super/cf8dtpf?context=3

> 5 feb 2014 kl. 16:01 skrev "Steven Boozer" <sboozer at uchicago.edu>:
> 
> De'vID:
>> nuqjatlh?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18mS4cLPOb8 
>> 
>> *{Doq 'ej sud hud ghItlhvetlhvtlhu vo'}???
>> 
>> Apparently, it was supposed to be "for purple mountain majesties".
>> Bing returns *{Doq 'ej SuD HuD ghItlhvetlh}
> 
> majesties -> {ghItlhvetlh} ("that manuscript")!! <g>
> 
> We do have a noun from Klingon Monopoly - {ngay'} "glory" - which might work for "majesty":
> 
>  wo' ngay' bochoqmeH bowIvlu'pu'! 
>  You have been chosen to preserve the glory of the Empire! MKE
> 
> Anyone know if all the new words from the last couple of years have been entered into the Bing database, or is it only those published in TKD and KGT?
> 
>> but where did *{vtlhu vo'} come from?
> 
> tlhu'  "be tempted" 
> 
> vo'    "propel
> -vo'    "from"
> 
> I can see Bing mis-using {-vo'} as "for", but {vtlhu} is a puzzle.
> 
> 
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> 
> 
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