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Authentic Klingon Ship Names

lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
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I'm learning a spot of Klingon in my spare time for a bit of fun. Whimsical ship names are especially good, so if any of you good people want yours translated (properly, not with Bing!) feel free to post below and I'll do my best.
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    I always find it fun to give ships names in the same language as the faction they belong to. Ordinarily, this means looking through translation-dictionaries for an hour or so per ship to name. (I'm pretty bad with other languages, so actually learning a fake one would be a waste of time for me.) However, I am getting a new fleet Mat'ha, and it needs a name. I was thinking something with hammer, but haven't given it much thought. Any suggestions? (Please also post the English translation of those suggestions.)

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    admrenlarreckadmrenlarreck Member Posts: 2,041 Arc User
    If your wanting to learn Klingonese then these guys are the best out there.

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    I flew the IKS Yoq YicH before that's the IKS Chocolate Tribble. It's been a while but I think that's the name.
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    lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    @kjwashington 
    mupwI' 'uch
    is "Grasp the Hammer"; 
    mupwI' poH
    is "Hammer Time"; 
    mupwI' jIghaj neH
    is "I Only Have A Hammer"; 
    mupwI' ghar
    is "Hammer Diplomacy".

    Am I on the right tracks?
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    chiyoumikuchiyoumiku Member Posts: 1,028 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    I actually did name my klingon sci-destroyer the IKS Pata'q. It was a total Pata'q but it served me well til my Mogh
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    I actually used some Kilrathi for my Klingon ships.
    Thrak'hath for my Kamarag Retrofit, Sivar for my Mirror Vo'Quv, K'Tithrak Mang for my old Negh'Var...

    Although right now my Negh'Tev is the Doomhammer and my Mat'ha is the Erza Scarlet...
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington 
    mupwI' ghar
    is "Hammer Diplomacy".

    This one I like. Dibs. Should I capitalize the first letters or does that change the meaning of the words?
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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    I named one of my older ships "Suvw'I Zoey"... at least I think that's how it was spelled.
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    lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    @kjwashington You should keep the capitalisation as it is for it to work.
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    cbrjwrrcbrjwrr Member Posts: 2,782 Arc User
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington You should keep the capitalisation as it is for it to work.

    Yeah, capitalisation in Klingon is not like it is in English; it is a different letter entirely, and there are only a few letters that are capitalised.
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    I came up with IKS yInmey ghanghwI' for a fanfic once. I was aiming for "one that ends lives prematurely".
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    cbrjwrr wrote: »
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington You should keep the capitalisation as it is for it to work.

    Yeah, capitalisation in Klingon is not like it is in English; it is a different letter entirely, and there are only a few letters that are capitalised.
    My favorite one of these is IKS Quv from the Path to 2409. I'm pretty sure they meant quv, referring to personal honor, rather than Quv, spatial coordinates.

    Cryptic's Romulan is even worse than their Klingon.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    I'd appreciate it if you could tell me the Klingon word for "thunder," because none of the dictionaries I've found seem to list it. I ended up using a literal translation of "sound of an exploding storm."
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    starswordc wrote: »
    I came up with IKS yInmey ghanghwI' for a fanfic once. I was aiming for "one that ends lives prematurely".

    How can they die prematurely, if it was a good day to die?
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    starswordc wrote: »
    I came up with IKS yInmey ghanghwI' for a fanfic once. I was aiming for "one that ends lives prematurely".

    How can they die prematurely, if it was a good day to die?

    They could have had a heart attack before the battle started. They say my ship decloaking is enough to kill men with fear. (An old joke between me and an old fleetmate. One time in a 1v1 PvP match, I decloaked behind him and he lost some crew.)
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    lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    @farranor This is a common problem with fictional languages; the vocabulary isn't anywhere near complete. There isn't a word for thunder that I can find but if you don't mind a neologism I would suggest the following. Literally it means "cloud shout".
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    Now that I'm thinking about it, I know QIb (for the Qib battlecruiser) means shadow, but does Mat'ha (or whatever correct spelling) mean anything?

    Also, do you know of anyone as experienced as you with Romulan? I've been quite unsatisfied with my Romulan ship names for some time.
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    lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    @kjwashington matHa' means "gunner".
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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington matHa' means "gunner".

    Cryptic really needs to work on their Klingon. :D
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    angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    My Klingon commands the targhQeH and the targhQuch. I'm wondering if at some point I might comission the targhQeHqu'. Depends on the next change Cryptic implements I guess pig-2.gif​​
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    mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    Duvqu' QIpDuj (Stupid Ship)
    MatHa vaghHIch (Five Guns)
    Qib qIjyo' (Black Fleet)
    Tadaari tlhaqDuj (Clock Ship)
    B'Rel ngo'Duj (Old Ship)
    Kar'Fi moHDuj (Ugly Ship)
    Kazon He'So'Duj (Stinky Ship)
    Marauder Qu'vatlh (Hundred Missions, implies promiscuity)
    Nov yoDHoSqoq (Supposedly Strong Shields)
    Peghqu' veQDuj (Garbage Ship)
    Varanus qulDuj (Fire Ship)
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    kjwashington wrote: »
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington matHa' means "gunner".

    Cryptic really needs to work on their Klingon. :D
    And their Romulan. In the case of Sela's flagship, "shadow" is supposed to be spelled "laehval", not "leahval", and Faeht ("secret") is supposed to have two 'h's in it.
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    mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    It frustrates the hell out of me, especially with Klingon which is a canonical language, that Cryptic blatantly ignores grammatical and spelling rules. Romulan and Vulcan at least are reasonably well-developed also, if not canonical, and they obviously follow the rules when it suits them and ignore them otherwise.
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    artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    starswordc wrote: »
    kjwashington wrote: »
    lopequil wrote: »
    @kjwashington matHa' means "gunner".

    Cryptic really needs to work on their Klingon. :D
    And their Romulan. In the case of Sela's flagship, "shadow" is supposed to be spelled "laehval", not "leahval", and Faeht ("secret") is supposed to have two 'h's in it.

    Or maybe the Americans Romulans take poor letter out of words that the English Remans spent so long putting in? Somewhere on the Romulan internet, a bunch of Remans are staying up 'til well past their bedtime moaning about how 'Faehht' is spelt with two 'h's and that football is played with the feet not the hands.

    :p


    As for Klingon ships, I really imaginatively put an I.K.S. in front of the class name (I.K.S. Vor'Kang, I.K.S. Quv, I.K.S. Negh'Var etc.).​​
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    farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    The Klingon in this game is terrible. Just about the only thing that's spelled right is Qo'noS, and voice actors don't pronounce it properly. During one of the Delta quadrant episodes, Tim Russ calls it "quo-nose" even though there's a perfectly serviceable Americanized "Kronos" for those who can't manage the Klingon version.
    lopequil wrote: »
    @farranor This is a common problem with fictional languages; the vocabulary isn't anywhere near complete. There isn't a word for thunder that I can find but if you don't mind a neologism I would suggest the following. Literally it means "cloud shout".
    'engjach

    One neologism is as good as another, I suppose - as I said, I ended up going with "noise of an exploding storm," which I figured went like this:
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    psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    I'm making a Foundry mission about the Fek'Ihri, and wanted to name one of their ships Vengeful Spirit as a reference to Warhammer 40,000. Can you tell me how to write it in Klingon?
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    farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    psycoticvulcan wrote: »
    I'm making a Foundry mission about the Fek'Ihri, and wanted to name one of their ships Vengeful Spirit as a reference to Warhammer 40,000. Can you tell me how to write it in Klingon?

    If I may have a go, the grammar makes it closer to "spirit of vengeance":

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    nickodaemusnickodaemus Member Posts: 711 Arc User
    My KDF toon is Gorn, so he uses other names for his ships that a human would likely understand. Latin for reptile species in most cases, or a few with the names of lesser known dragons. "MAQMIGH", which is a temporal destroyer, is the only Klingon name I found which I like. It refers to an approaching evil or dread. I never really got that the Gorn were not in the Federation as human allies since they were supposed to be according to my knowledge.
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    farranorfarranor Member Posts: 559 Arc User
    nickodaemus wrote: »
    My KDF toon is Gorn, so he uses other names for his ships that a human would likely understand. Latin for reptile species in most cases, or a few with the names of lesser known dragons. "MAQMIGH", which is a temporal destroyer, is the only Klingon name I found which I like. It refers to an approaching evil or dread. I never really got that the Gorn were not in the Federation as human allies since they were supposed to be according to my knowledge.

    Technically it's:
    maQmIgh

    For Klingon, uppercase and lowercase English/Roman glyphs are used to represent different letters rather than to express grammar.
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    tigrovaya13akulatigrovaya13akula Member Posts: 151 Arc User
    Here's a few I thought were interesting

    'IwlIj jachjaj --- May your blood scream!

    nuqneH --- What do you want? (a confrontational greeting)

    veQDuj --- Garbage Scow

    ghIj cha'par --- Scarecrow (actually 'Scare bird')

    'Iw 'op DIjlu'ta'bogh --- Blood bath

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    kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    tigrovaya13akula wrote: »
    veQDuj --- Constitution class cruiser

    Fixed that for you! ;)o:)
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