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Bing Translator Adds Klingon

Posted by Soulskill on from the 'oH-QaQ-jaj,-mugh dept.

Today Microsoft made an addition to its Bing translation service: the Klingon language. You can now easily read up on proper grooming habits for your Targ, learn how to perform routine maintenance on your painstiks, and brush up on your Shakespeare. You can also brush up on your tlhIngan Hol by reading your favorite websites through a translation filter. The timing is no coincidence; Star Trek: Into Darkness is coming out on Friday. Qapla'

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  1. 9 out of 10 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    9 out of 10 Klingons use Bing!!!

    1. Re:9 out of 10 by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

      9 out of 10 Klingons use Bing!!!

      On the internet, nobody knows you're a Ferringhi.

  2. this was entertaining by geekoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    10 years ago when everyone else did it.

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  3. Borg? by 680x0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dunno... somehow Borg seems more appropriate for a Microsoft product. :-)

    1. Re:Borg? by Immerman · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but the translation requires that you have a direct neural override implant installed, and the marketing team is still trying to figure out how to make that sound like a must-have feature.

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  4. Re:Oblig by cold+fjord · · Score: 5, Funny

    Klingon Grammar Warriors - stricter than even Grammar Nazis.

    Today is a good day to conjugate! Qapla'

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  5. It doesn't actually work by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Klingon language isn't actually complete, so if it encounters a word that has no translation it just makes-up something by adding unpronounceable letters in place of real ones. Unless it starts with a capital letter at which point it knows it was a proper name. Examples:
    Microsoft --> microsoft
    microsoft --> mIchroSotlht
    what stinks is that it isn't smart enough to reverse the process:
    mIchroSotlht --> michrosokt

    1. Re:It doesn't actually work by excelsior_gr · · Score: 3, Funny

      I guess it is a genuine Microsoft implementation then.

  6. Venn Diagram? by Flere+Imsaho · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are either of the Bing users trekkies?

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  7. Re:20 year old geek chic by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 3, Funny

    No common tongue support? Fail.

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  8. Re:I have sampled every language, by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like wiping your ass with a pine-cone, I love it.

    Some of us don't share this particular fetish...

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  9. Re:Oblig by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 3, Informative

    That just means the translation was a little creative. There are several natural languages with no 'being' verb. Even if Okrand (not Okuna!) didn't provide a way of discussing existence in his dictionary, it's silly to think there's no way of doing so in a widely-used language.

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  10. LOLTargs by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can has gagh?