My friend Holly (the female Klingon) met the marketing lead for Magic. He asked if she knew a Klingon who could come on the main stage with Jess Bush (Nurse Chapel) and Gavin Verhey to do a little gag. I had a great time.

A secret lair with 5 Klingon frame cards has been announced. These have pIqaD on one side and English on the other side.

I want to give my friend a small gift. Can someone read this for me? I would love to get an audio file:

"HutlhchoHlI' nav. 'ej ngevwI' qachDaq SoHtaHvIS, wejmaH deka krakowska ghap kindziuk, QImmey gouda nIm je vIvut."

Spouse wants me to get into Mah Jongg. Not entirely against it, but it would be cool to have a set of tiles with a Klingon theme to them. Here is a link with a listing of the tiles for an American set:

https://mahjong4friends.com/guides/mahjong-tile-names-for-american-mah-jongg

tr;dc (too risky; didn't click)

Suit tiles consist of three groups:

• Dots: These tiles are typically marked with circular shapes, often resembling dots or wheels.
• Bams: Short for bamboo, these tiles usually feature bamboo sticks or similar linear designs.
• Craks: Short for characters, these tiles are typically marked with Chinese characters, even in American Mah Jongg sets.

Each suit contains numbered tiles from 1 through 9, with four of each tile. When calling a Suit tile, you say the number followed by the suit name, such as “3 Dot.”

The Wind tiles include four tiles each of the following:

• North Wind
• East Wind
• West Wind
• South Wind

These tiles are typically called by their cardinal direction name, “North,” instead of “North Wind.” On the NMJL card, these tiles are indicated by a one-letter abbreviation (N, E, W, or S).

The Dragon tiles include four tiles each of the following:

• Red Dragon
• Green Dragon
• White Dragon

Call these tiles by their full name, such as “Red Dragon,” but the White Dragon is commonly referred to “Soap.”

Flower tiles (eight in total) are all considered equal, regardless of their design or numbering. While sets often include multiple Flower tiles with different images or numbers, they are interchangeable in play.

Season tiles play a role in other Mahjong variations and often come in American Mah Jongg tile sets, but they aren’t a separate category. If you see tiles that represent the four seasons, they are still considered interchangeable Flower tiles. Just be sure you’re only playing with a total of eight Flower tiles of any design (many sets contain extras).

Flower tiles are simply called “Flower.”

8 Joker tiles which are used as wild cards.

That all being said, the tiles I have in mind are:

Fek'lhr for the Jokers.

Bird-of-Prey for the Dragons (since the White Dragon is a blank tile).

K't'inga-class for Flowers/Seasons.

D'k tahg for the Bam since the dagger has a similar shape.

Character for Qo'noS for Craks.

Trefoil/Klingon Emblem for the Dots, though if someone has something better, I would prefer the trefoil on the backs of the tiles.

Just a thought. Thank you for slogging through this musing.

Hi. I need a "native" speaker to check this data for me for a linguistic project.

Hello. I need some 'native' speakers to check this data for me for a linguistic project. There are very few examples of pronominal prefixes in the research literature, and these need to be as accurate as possible.

Hi!

Im a tattoo artist that knows NOTHING about Klingon and one of my clients has made tattoo reference using AI that includes it.

I DO NOT want to tattoo it until I know what it means or if it's just AI nonsense (Cause fuck that). I however have no idea what klingon usually looks like or if this is completely wrong

Sorry if this isn't within the rules, not sure where else I can ask 😅

TIA 😊

Part of a puzzle set:

Thanks!

Just curious and wanted to ask the community. Last night i spoke Klingon to my friend, thought i was fluent as hell, but when i woke up i realized i was telling him some nonsense

What abt you guys?

I'm trying to make a motivational poster in klingon and my attempt at a translation was:

yItaH, ghojwI'! may'rInDI', Qapla'!
(Carry on, student! When the battle finishes/comes to an end, success awaits!)

Does the translation make sense?

hello!!!

I’ve been binging some trek lately and thought this would be a funny slogan to write on my backpack but I have no idea if there is a correct way to write it in Klingon and/or translate it in to the Klingon alphabet.

Anybody enlightened enough to help? 🥰

Thanks!!

I made a klingon sigh for my dad in blender. What do you all think?

I found I way to download the front a use it in blender. What do you think? Father now we drink

I'm writing a Star Trek fanfic wherein I have a Klingon character who is a hermaphrodite.

I am aware that in the present day, "hermaphrodite" is considered a slur for intersex people primarily because there is a physical distinction between a hermaphrodite and someone who is intersex. However, my character is best described as a hermaphrodite rather than intersex.

So, is there a Klingon word for hermaphrodite or something similar?

As a happily married woman who sometimes uses this for clients (I work in media), this brings me endless joy. Drop your favorite phrases or fun ideas and I'll send them 🤣 Also, feel free to correct me. I'm just self taught from the old DuoLingo version a few years ago and ofc the Klingon Dictionary.

I’m trying to find a correct or official translation of the phrase “Today is a good day to die, but it is a better day to live.”

So far, I’ve found “Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam, ach QaQroS yIn jaj.”

I know the first part is correct, but the second part is harder to confirm. Let me know if it’s correct or if there’s a resource that has this phrase.

Thanks!

I bought my husband a batleth for our anniversary. I'm having a hard time choosing poem or saying to put on a plaque on the stand. Any suggestions or options would be helpful. It's our 25th anniversary.

I also want to put : House of (our last name) do I just put tuq after our name? I got a mix of information in my search.

Thank you for any help.

Hello, everyone I just started learning klingon on duolingo. I'm picking it up a lot faster than I had figured I would. But "mach jIyaj". I want to say "see you tomorow"

Im told its wa'leS qulegh. But that does not sound properly conjugated. And i would like a pronunciation if any one can give one. Thanks. And Qapla'

Hello, I came from Youtube, that Klingon is frequently used as a special audio track, some instances include notices, mute, and more.

I found this weird old clipping tucked inside my 1990s Klingon dictionary: a Klingon warrior (I think from one of the movies) points his disruptor right out of the page and asks "nuqDaq yuch Dapol" meaning "Where do you keep the chocolate?" Can anyone ID which character it is? I suspect it’s from one of the later films, but I can’t tell if it’s an actual frame or just a publicity photo.

Oddly, the ad is for the British subsidiary of Informix Software, a database company specialising in online transaction processing for retail, finance and energy. Informix’s database product was bought up by IBM in 2001 - a few years later, in 2005, IBM swallowed up the company itself, now renamed Ascential Software after losing its headline product. The database software still exists today as IBM Informix and HCL Informix.

I found the clipping while clearing out my old Star Trek stuff. Judging by the news stories on the other side, it looks like the Wednesday 14 February 1996 edition of The Daily Telegraph. I wondered if the “Where do you keep the chocolate?” line could be Valentine’s Day reference?

The complete text reads:

THE PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION:

nuqDaq yuch Dapol.

Your organisation may possess entire galaxies of useful information.

But it will do you very little good unless you can make sense of it all.

That's why so many database-driven enterprises are turning to Informix to help them translate their potential into commercial success.

No wonder we're boldly growing so much faster than any of our rivals.

INFORMIX (R) World leaders in database technology.

FOR THE BEST INFORMATION, RING (0181) 818 1081. INFORMIX SOFTWARE LIMITED, 6 NEW SQUARE, BEDFONT LAKES, FELTHAM, MIDDLESEX TW14 8HA.

I'm leaving the original details intact as there's no risk in them - (0181) was an old-style Outer London area code, abolished in the "Big Number Change" of 1999-2000 when all of London adopted (020). Bedfont Lakes is a business park next to Heathrow Airport - IBM are still located there, but 6 New Square is now used by the UK Home Office. Searching for that "For the best information" line turns out to be a good way of finding other quirky Informix ads from the era! But I could only find poor quality text-only OCRs on the Internet Archive rather than images.

Still, that was enough to discover Informix re-ran the advert in The Times (of London) in March 1996 with the same wording: https://archive.org/stream/NewsUK1996UKEnglish/Mar%2011%201996%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2365524%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt

But I can't track down an image for that one, so they might not have used the same photo.

In fact the only other reference I can find to this advertising campaign at all is one post from the old tlhIngan-Hol Mailing List Archives, made by the late Anthony Appleyard of UMIST, a well-known sci-fi and fantasy superfan who even got his own Wikipedia page! It was posted on Wed 14 Feb 1996 - though the text gets the day of the week wrong - under the title "An unusual use of Klingon": https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1996/February/msg00185.html

In the British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" (Tue 14 Feb 1996), p3, there is a quarter-page ad with a photo of a Klingon, and under it "nuqDaq yuch Dapol" (which seems to mean "Where do you keep the chocolate?") in inch-high type, and below that in smaller type an advertisement (including two Star-Trek-ish references) for a database software selling company called Informix. The idea is to convey the trouble in understanding incoming information unless you buy e.g. Qwertyuiop Incorporated's software.

Anyway that's the only other reference I can find to this unusual advertising campaign and I can't see an image of it anywhere online, so thought I would share it with you guys! I know there are people who are interested in cataloguing real-world uses of Klingon so could so perhaps they could be told about it, I feel like this unusual find should be archived somewhere!

nuqneH!

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