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naps8906
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I need to translate "You are fugly" into klingon. Can someone help me out? thx.
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Re: Can a scholarly klingon help me out?
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What does "fugly" mean?
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Klythe
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Re: Can a scholarly klingon help me out?
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From what I have heard of Terran street culture.... I believe that it is a contraction between an epithet that starts with an 'f' and "ugly".
Correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding of the terran phrase, as te'reS will correct me if I err on the translation. Of course any number of various forms of invective could be used, none more 'accurate' than any other.
Klingon epithets don't work the same way Terrans do. Klingon cursing is so overwhelmingly powerful that a proper Klingon curse just doesn't translate back into English.
If you need to translate this phrase, You'll need to buy the revised Klingon Dictionary and study it.
If you would like us to translate it, however it is fairly trivial.
Stop reading if you wish to translate this yourself.
You are f' ugly.
you-none are-ugly very epithet
bI moH qu' jay'
Pronounced roughly like "Bih Moch koo. jye." that is Bit without the t, Mocha without the a, and if you can manage the ch should sound more like it does in Bach or Loch Ness, koo only don't glide the ending, cut it of sharply, same with the last word, like you are saying jive, but got something caught in your throat. As opposed to the first two words Bih and Moch would sound more like you just forgot what comes next.
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Re: Can a scholarly klingon help me out?
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Never mind, I checked my
Urban Dictionary
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[Note: There is an Urban Dictionary online at
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
. -=- Kesvirit]
bImoHqu' jay'!
bI-
"you (subject)"
moH
"ugly" (pronounce "mokh")
-qu'
"very"
jay'
"@#$^&"
Quote from: Klythe on 05 15, 2007, 12:36: PM
Correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding of the terran phrase, as te'reS will correct me if I err on the translation.
I make it a policy never to correct another's Klingon unless they have specifically asked for feedback.
[edit- Merged double post -Klythe]
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What if I were to instead demand that you correct my Klingon when it is wrong? (which is frightfully often...)
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Be careful what you wish for...
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thanks a bunch, u experts
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