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#t=68Putting a Klingon translation together is no easy task. Klingon grammar is tough to master. Take, for example, whats involved for a sentence as simple as Never gonna give you up. You dont just look up the translation for each word and stick it in the English slots. You have to use the complicated system of prefixes and suffixes. The translation is jIHyIntaHvIS not qajegh, which breaks down as:
jIH-yIn-taH-vIS not qa-jegh
I-live-continuous-while never I/you-surrender
As long as I live, Ill never surrender you.
And thats not the only challenge the translators have to deal with. The Klingon vocabulary is adapted to what you might call the Klingon worldview. So a lot of concepts that show up in love songs just arent, yknow, relevant. The translators have to get the gist across with what theyve got. Heres how they make the first verse work:
Apparent love is not alien to us.
(Were no strangers to love)
You know the laws, and I do too.
(You know the rules and so do I.)
I am certainly considering a blood oath with you.
(A full commitments what Im thinking of.)
Many other males wouldnt give you these things.
(You wouldnt get this from any other guy.)
Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53236/now-you-can-rickroll-your-friends-or-enemies-klingon
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Klingon Rick Roll (Original Post)
jakeXT
Oct 2013
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Xyzse
(8,217 posts)1. I'm going to have to post here to watch this later.
Klingon Rick-rollin, what's not to like?
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)2. ZOMG.
Deployed.
denbot
(9,901 posts)3. Book marked.
I can't remember the last R-R epidemic around here..
hunter
(38,326 posts)4. Excellent!
K&R
sarge43
(28,945 posts)5. Why didn't the Starfleet red shirt get killed?
I thought that was a rite of passage for any Klingon. The girls would have been turned on.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)6. I kept expecting that!
Like the Klingon singer would get offended at the Star Fleet guy dancing to the song and kill him for it. It would be an appropriate finale!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)7. Yeah, they missed a good capper there. nt