Finally some decent ad copy!

Stumbled over this in Gothenburg, Sweden. Made my day.

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11 Comments

astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 2y

I took a stab at it. Transliterated, it says: "Qapla'. Qu'Dunvad ghunwl' DlSam." I ran it through Bing's translator (since the only word I recognize is Qapla'), and I got "Success. Your baby better is done." I think the translation is wrong. When I was playing with another translator, it gave me "Success. For the glorious battle has begun" which seems more fitting.

Haus@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They have ads in Elvish and Star Wars Galactic Standard, too. If nobody translates it before I get home, I'll break out the old dictionary. https://www.thestable.com.au/we-are-more-castra-the-worlds-first-elvish-ads/

Amazed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Please update us if you get the dictionary out!

Haus@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

When I looked, aebeltrae's translation agreed with my print dictionary with the exception of the last syllable, which I couldn't find. The linked dictionary on this page does have the last syllable "Sam", so it looks like they nailed it.

lolcatnip@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 2y

Wait, do people speak Klingon in Sweden? I thought everyone there spoke Human.

Downcount@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I'm just an average Star Trek watcher. I mean, I like it very much, but if I compare myself to most of the posters in here, I wouldn't call myself a fan.

That said:

  • How did you know, this ad is related to Star Trek
  • What language is it (I'd guess klingon, but am not sure)
  • Could you translate this?
Haggers@startrek.website · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's klingon! I just know what it looks like from a life of nerding, same as with tengwar, Time Lord script, the unitologist writing from dead space. Couldn't tell you where exactly I picked any of that up. That said. I can't translate it. The glyphs make it borderline impossible to use translation software :/

VindictiveJudge@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y

Hmm, I can recognize Klingon and tengwar, but not the others. I can still read Daedric from when I played Morrowind all the time, but it takes me a while to remember what the individual glyphs mean.

ehrenschwan@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y

Yes that's definitely Klingon, sadly can't translate it tho

jameskirk@startrek.website · 1 pts · 2y

People around these parts would probably ask me if I even like star trek :)

73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

I found an interesting position there. But there seems to be no discription of the job itself, just of the company. That's odd.