Klingon names

posted on June 12th, 2010, 8:25 am

I know you guys have done your basic homework on tlhIngan Hol (i.e. SuS'a' means 'strong wind'; Vutpa' means 'galley'), but I've been looking through the names in the ODF files, and some of them are just plain ridiculous.  My favorite so far translates as "let's go gargle!".  The English names are little better, really.

Given six hours and a Klingon dictionary, I think I could replace a substantial amount of the 387-odd names with more linguistically correct entries. 

posted on June 12th, 2010, 10:15 am

the klingon shipnames are still take from Armada 2. We are working on a better set of shipnames for all races, but its on low Priority. If you want to contribute, feel free to

posted on June 12th, 2010, 10:19 am

Okay.  I'll try and find time to put a list together, including translations.  I'll post it up here.

posted on June 12th, 2010, 1:58 pm

I think given that in a TNG episode they rendezvoused with the Klingon cruiser "Qu'vat" (which means "screw you"), the ridiculous stock a2 names do match canon quite well, LOL :-P

posted on June 12th, 2010, 2:16 pm

But ridiculous names are awesome! Qu'vat was one of the coolest - just had to look up the names of those ships after hearing them onscreen 

posted on June 12th, 2010, 2:58 pm

You reckon these name are good? Check the Klingon names from the 'Distress Call' mod for Bridge Commander. They're much better than the A2 ones.

I think I put them on the Fek'lhr. Many are english mixed-up to look Klingon, but are still recognizable.

posted on June 12th, 2010, 2:59 pm

Hah! I didn't mean all of them - just some of the more silly "in Klingon" ones are nice

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:03 pm

just translate the diablo2 (german version) boss monster names into klingon. A good example there was in german "Baumkopfholzfaust" which means translated ... word by word "treeheadwoodfist"
Dont think it could get more ridiculous

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:06 pm

Treeheadwoodfist is actually the correct name in the english version

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:34 pm

in german it sounds totally stupid

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:41 pm

Haha, but doesn't german put a lot of words together to form new words and phrases?

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung is "speed limit" for example.  Treeheadwoodfist just sounds like a natural extension of that.

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:43 pm

Several languages seem to use entire sentences for a single word.

posted on June 12th, 2010, 3:55 pm

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Is apparently the longest German word.  It's the name of a law that has to do with how beef is labled.

Say that 3 times fast.

posted on June 12th, 2010, 4:29 pm

at least the law itself was shorter written then. On the other side we got laws with hundrets of pages but short names 

but maybe the name could be used as klingon shipname. Would prolly work without translating it into klingon ... 

posted on June 12th, 2010, 6:00 pm

Ya know, 'screw you' actually sounds like something Klingons might name a ship.  'Let's go gargle' on the other hand?  Not so much.