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Help with KDF ship names

diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited November 2012 in Klingon Discussion
I don't suppose there's any Klingon speakers here?

I currently have a low level Klingon character that I want to develop a bit more, who is flying a ship called the IKS Pagh, named after the ship Riker goes to on that officer exchange programme in TNG.

I've looked through various dictionaries for words I like the sound of for ship names, but I have no idea if the following are grammatically correct. Any notes would be much appreciated!

So far I've decided on these potential ship names:

IKS Doghjey vo' tera' (Unconditional surrender of Earth)
IKS Doghjey vo' DIvI' (Unconditional surrender of the Federation)
IKS ghIqtal (To the death)
IKS chontay (Ritual Hunt)
IKS Mang (Soldier)
IKS SeDveq (Barbed spearhead)
IKS yanwI' (Swordsman)
IKS charghwI' (Conqueror)
IKS veqlargh (Demon)
IKS 'oDwI' (Arbitrator)
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  • travelingmastertravelingmaster Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Since I think you used movies-dictionary.org for some of these, I think you could safely go with that. It seems like it would be accurate, but I'm not certain.

    Don't use Mr.Klingon translator, it's not very good.
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  • shinysalmonshinysalmon Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I use this site for Klingon languaging.

    The single noun names are probably fine though Klingon grammar's a bit different from English, so phrases can be tricky.

    For the unconditional surrender ones, first off, -vo' in the "from" sense is a noun suffix, and should be appended to the subject, so "from Earth" would be "tera'vo'."

    Second, location defining nouns go before the rest of the sentence, so "Unconditional surrender from Earth" should be:

    tera'vo' Doghjey

    Literally translated, "from Earth, unconditional surrender"
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I believe "to the death" is spelled "Gik'tal".
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  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Thanks guys, that's really helpful! I knew there'd be some experts around here. :D
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  • chalpenchalpen Member Posts: 2,207 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    make up words.

    Kor'Vette

    Pin'Toh

    Far Rarri

    Dat'Sun
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  • whamhammer1whamhammer1 Member Posts: 2,290 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    The Narn in B5 remind me a lot of the Klink's. I use the B5 wars "Ships of the Fleet" to take names of their ship classes. They have a bunch of guttural sounding names with apostrophes all over the place.
  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    Thanks for the advice! I'm looking forward to developing my Klingon character, since I've already got two Federation characters to level 50. My Klingon is an Engineer, since my Feds are Tactical and Science, but I'm not entirely sure about which types of KDF ships I should be looking at. I want to go purely Klingon, only Klingon BOFFs, and only Klingon ships. Are there specific KDF ships that work best with the Engineer characters? What roles do they tend to fill in game?
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    diotw wrote: »
    Thanks for the advice! I'm looking forward to developing my Klingon character, since I've already got two Federation characters to level 50. My Klingon is an Engineer, since my Feds are Tactical and Science, but I'm not entirely sure about which types of KDF ships I should be looking at. I want to go purely Klingon, only Klingon BOFFs, and only Klingon ships. Are there specific KDF ships that work best with the Engineer characters? What roles do they tend to fill in game?

    Battle cruisers are arguably the best, since both cruisers and engineers are built for tanking. However, I fly a Qin Raptor on my Engineer and that thing is a beast.
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  • age03age03 Member Posts: 1,664 Arc User
    edited October 2012
    I get mine from other games.
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  • keppabar42keppabar42 Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    My main KDF character is Gorn, and since he flies a fleet heavy raptor it is named IKS Deinonychus.
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