the-andorian-mining-consortium:
(the entire exchange, preserved for posterity)
(I don’t know if anyone cares to tell me if the Klingon is correct or not?)
Some of the words are correct, but the grammar and usage is all off. The passages above look like straight, word-for-word translations from English, which would come out as nonsense if you said it to a Klingon. XD
Here’s a slightly more accurate translation, but I had to shift things around quite a bit to make it work, and it comes out as an entirely different song! But here it is:
yuQDaq wIpawDI’
‘ej HovDaq mayIt
Dochmey DIlegh
Dochmey law’!
reH poH’e’ DIvangbe’laHtaH!Doch’e’mey law’.
Doch’e’mey DIyajbe’leH
DItu’be’
chalDaq Hov Sal ach
Doch’e’mey DochSuSmey je
gho boghtaH
poH’e’It does change the meaning of the words, since some of what’s expressed in the original doesn’t really translate in the same way to Klingonese. This is a rough translation back to English:
When we arrive on the planet
And walk into the star
We see things
Many things!
We can not continue to talk action forever!Many huge things.
Huge things we cannot understand.
We cannot find them
But into the sky the star rises high
Big things and small things
The circle is born and continues
Forever.And Circle of Life I suppose would be “gho yInmeH” – circle for living. You could say “yIn gho” (life’s circle) but it’s not very clear what is meant as it could be also interpretated as “the circle is alive”.
gho yInmeH
Hoch SeH
Hoch ‘IQ, hoch tul, hoch voq je
bangmaHmeH wItu’eghtaH voghDaq
HeDaq wIleng
He Qatlh
gho yInmeH
gho yInmeHCircle for living
It controls everyone and everything
Everyone is sad, everyone has hope, everyone has faith,
The ones who are lovedWe continue to find somewhere for ourselves
On the route we travel
The route is difficult
The circle for living
The circle for livingSomeone else could probably do a better job of this than me, but that’s as close as I can get!
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