[tlhIngan Hol] Marc Okrand narrates audio tour for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

[Tad Stauffer]

I installed the app from the Google Play store, and for the Klingon tour,
it shows the Klingon text for each artifact.

Notably ,the section on the Columbia does read {turlu'taHvIS} with an r.

The first sentence of this artifact's English description on the
Smithsonian webpage
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/command-module-apollo-11 is :

The Apollo 11 Command Module, "Columbia," was the living quarters for the
three-person crew during most of the first manned lunar landing mission in
July 1969.

Okrand's Klingon version seems to be a translation of this sentence, so
{tur} might mean "to man, not to automate"

Another observation : The word from the Spirit of St Louis section is not
{*DIHbe'}. It is written as {rIQbe'}, which is known vocabulary.

I'll try to compare the official transcription with QeS's transcription
later, unfortunately the app doesn't let me copy and paste the Klingon text
for easy comparison.

-Tad
sent from my smartphone telephone

On Sep 9, 2016 1:57 PM, "Rhona Fenwick" <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> De'vammo' qatlho'qu', loghaD! Do'Ha' tlhoy lutlh ghogh HablI'wIj, vaj Go
> Flight vIlo'laHbe' jIH. jImogh. yIQongchu'! Hokay, while loghaD sleeps (and
> before I go to sleep myself), I've had a shot at transcribing all of the
> ones on the website. CAUTION TO ALL: These are preliminary, not to be taken
> as canon just yet.
>
>
> ----------
>
> [Introductory section:] bImoDnIS'a'? Dujmey noyqu' [nIH?] Dalegh DaneH'a'?
> DaH Dochmey Daleghbe' DaneHbe'bogh DIDel. bISuchtaHvIS latlh Dochmey Daj
> Datu'bej.
>
>
> [My comments: It sounded like [nIH] in the second sentence, but that
> doesn't seem to make any sense. Anyone else?]
>
>
> ----------
>
> St Louis toDuj: 'orwI' ghaH Charles A. Lindbergh'e'. Ryan NYP [plane type]
> chu' 'oH muD Duj'e' 'ej St Louis toDuj 'o[H; pronounced as {S}] pongDaj'e'.
> 'orta', 'ej St Louis pawta'. ghIq New York pawta'. tera' jaj cha'maH jar
> vagh DIS wa' Hut cha' Soch [HerSpa'meH?] New Yorkvo' tlheDta'. wa'leS Le
> Bourget yotlhDaq Saqta'. DIHbe'. nIteb 'atlantIq bIQ'a' chIqbogh 'orwI'
> wa'DIch mojta'. Qapla'!
>
> [My comments: Like loghaD, I'd happily gloss {chIq} as "traverse, cross"
> - that's the only meaning that makes sense here (plus it's a sense we've
> hitherto lacked a verb for). We have an apparent new word in {DIHbe'}, and
> I'm pretty certain of that transcription. But isolated as it is I haven't
> got the foggiest what to make of it in terms of sense. It's not "stop" or
> "pause", which we have in {mev} and {yev}.]
>
> ----------
> Bell X-wa' Glennis 'IH: tera' jaj wa'maH loS jar wa'maH DIS wa' Hut loS
> Soch puvDI' Bell X-wa', DoDaj vItlh law' wab Do vItlh puS. Do patlhvam
> chavta'bogh muD Duj wa'DIch moj 'oH. X-wa' 'or SepjIjQa' muD beq Charles E.
> "Chuck" Yeager HoD. Do patlh vItlhqu' chavta'. qaStaHvIS wa' rep, vaghvatlh
> javmaH loS qelI'qam lenglaH: wab Do wa' vI' pagh jav. Yeager be'nal vanmeH,
> muD DujvaD «Glennis 'IH» pong Yeager.
>
> [My comments: loghaD, you were close: it's not {vuvDI' Bell X-wa'}, it's
> {puvDI' Bell X-wa'}.
> A couple of other comments. Firstly, in both instances of {wab Do} the
> stress is clearly on the first syllable, which to me would indicate that
> it's two words. Nonetheless, it's a collocation for "the speed of sound",
> in any case.
> Secondly, given how strongly Marc has stuck by Klingon having no verb for
> "be fast" in the past, I'd tend towards a gloss of "be high (on a scale)"
> or similar (as opposed to {jen}), but I think we need to have that
> confirmed by either Marc or an overt English gloss.]
>
> ----------
> 'amerI'qa' 'ev chan 'ev X-wa'maH vagh: tera' DIS wa' Hut vagh Hut bI'reS
> puv 'amerI'qa' 'ev chan 'ev X-wa'maH vagh. muDDaq neH muD Dujmey vorgh
> lu'orlu'. 'ach loghDaq puvlaH Dujmey 'orbogh nuv 'e' 'agh X-wa'maH vagh.
> wab Do loS, vagh, jav je lengta'. 'ej 'IvDaj jen law' HutSaD Sochvatlh
> wejmaH 'uj'a'mey jen puS. Do patlhvam 'Iv patlhvam je chavtaHbogh telmey
> ghajbogh muD Duj wa'DIch 'oH. wa'maH cha'  X-wa'maH vagh 'orwI'pu' tu'lu'.
> chorgh 'orwI'pu'vaD logh lengwI' Deghmey lunoblu'.
>
> [My comments: Nothing really to note here, except that we see the
> recently-revealed verb {vorgh} in the wild, and also a law'/puS
> construction of the meaning "it was higher than X (altitude)" that shows
> explicitly we can use a measurement in the law'/puS construct.]
>
> ----------
> tera' DIS wa' Hut pagh wej Wright puvwI': qaStaHvIS loS tera' DISmey,
> puvmeH nguSDI' lo'bogh muD Duj wa'DIch luchenmoHmeH QullI' 'ej 'oghlI'
> Wilbur Wright Orville Wright je. tera' DIS wa' Hut pagh wej Wright puvwI'
> 'oH muD Dujvam'e'. bI'reS nguSDI' Hutlhbogh wej muD Duj'a'mey motlh chenmoH
> loDnI'pu', 'ej waH. ghIq tera' jaj wa'maH Soch, jar wa'maH cha', DIS wa'
> Hut pagh wej Kitty Hawk, North CarolinaDaq puvta' nguSDI' lo'bogh muD Duj
> wa'DIch. Qapla'! muD Duj 'or Orville. qaStaHvIS leng wa'DIch, wa'maH cha'
> lup, wa'maH wa' vI' vagh 'uj'a'mey lengta'.
>
> [My comments: I can't see anything remarkable here in terms of grammar
> and lexicon.]
>
> ----------
> Apollo wa'maH wa' ra'ghom bobcho' Columbia: tera' jar Soch, DIS wa' Hut
> jav Hut, maSDaq SaqmeH Qu' wa'DIch HochHom tu['?]lu'taHvIS, wej logh
> lengwI'pu' pa'mey 'oH Apollo wa'maH wa' ra'ghom bobcho' Columbia'e'. Neil
> Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins je chaH.
>
> [My comments: On the first pass I heard the verb as {tu'lu'taHvIS},
> though there does sound like retroflexion there that could represent
> {turlu'taHvIS}, though the sense still eludes me: "While most of the first
> mission to land on the moon was being [X]ed..."? {tu'} is
> sort-of-but-not-quite-sensical in that context: "while most of the first
> mission to land on the moon was being observed"? I'm not sure.]
>
> Any insights from anyone else?
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
>
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