Re: [Swprograms] DW qo' : wa'maH ben chen 'ach wej Doy'http://klingon.dw-world.de/klingon/history.php

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This isn't April 1st, is it?

The site looks legit...and there is a link to it from the main English
website, too.

[cynic on]

Wonder how much it cost DW to do this, expressed in the value of Antigua
transmitter-hours?

[cynic off]

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Say" <say@xxxxxx>
To: "Daniel Say" <say@xxxxxx>; <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:34 AM
Subject: [Swprograms] DW qo' : wa'maH ben chen 'ach wej
Doy'http://klingon.dw-world.de/klingon/history.php


> 8am  Sept 15, 2004
> German 'World Service' boldly goes for Klingon news
> Michael Leidig
> Wednesday September 15, 2004 The Guardian (London, UK)
>
> The German equivalent of the BBC World Service,
> Deutsche Welle, has added a new language to its
> global news network by starting to use Klingon.
>
> Star Trek, or Raumschiff Enterprise as it is
> known in Germany, has cult status with thousands
> of German Trekkies admitting they are obsessed
> with the TV series and its various spin-off
> programmes.
>
> The popularity of the show in Germany and abroad
> prompted the country's state-run world radio
> network to begin offering online reports and
> audio clips in Klingon.
>
> The station said the language of the big-browed,
> ill-mannered alien characters from Star Trek will
> be added to the existing 30 languages they
> already use on their homepage.
>
> A spokesman said: "We wanted something special to
> commemorate the tenth anniversary of the site."
>
> The Klingon reports on the Deutsche Welle website
> are also supposed to underline the station's
> philosophy of multicultural, intergalactic
> openness.
>
> "The dialogue of cultures does not stop at the
> edge of the solar system," said the Deutsche
> Welle director, Erik Bettermann. "We should
> celebrate our 10-year presence in the online
> universe with a cross-border language.
>
> "This should help users from other galaxies get
> an impression of Germany," he added.
>
> For those not versed in the artificial TV
> language created by linguist Marc Okrand, the
> website offers an online translation program
> called "Mr Klingon", which translates Klingon
> news into German and English.
>
> Klingon was created for the television show Star
> Trek and has its own grammatical rules and
> vocabulary. Works by Shakespeare have already
> been translated into Klingon.
>
>
> The announcement of Deutsche Welle's online news
> service in Klingon reads: "DIS 1994 dwelle.de
> taghDI' DW, tv online website wa'DIch 'oH.
> qaStaHvIS DISmey veb tInchoH 'ej tera'Daq
> noyqu'choH DW qo'".
>
> ----------
> http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/story/0,12636,1304345,00.html
> http://klingon.dw-world.de/klingon/index.php
>
>  15.09.04 | 08:21 UTC
> juH
> DW-WORLD qun
> [Categories]
> - tlhIngan tay
> - tlhIngan Segh Dellu'
> - Deutschland Dellu'
> - tlhIngan ghoj
>
> Language Versions
> English Deutsch
>
> DW-WORLD.DE
> DW qo': wa'maH ben chen 'ach wej Doy'
>
> DIS 1994 dwelle.de taghDI' DW, tv online website
> wa'DIch 'oH. qaStaHvIS DISmey veb tInchoH 'ej
> tera'Daq noyqu'choH DW qo'.
>
> tlhIngan tay
> tlhIngan SeghvaD potlh 'oH tay'e'. naDev loQ Dellu'.
>
> tlhIngan Segh Dellu'
> tlhIngan Segh tIgh je, 'ach mungDaj qonlu'be'.
> Qo'noS yuQ luDab tlhInganpu'. Hov Hop bav yuQvam,
> wa'vI'vaghlogh tera' 'aD 'oH.
>
> tlh DunDajmo' pIj pa' ghIQlu'.
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