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Anyone got a english}-{minbari dictionary (well, phrasebook)?

Don't think I've found one yet.
Ok, so you have to think like a minbari to truely be able to speak the language, but we do know that some phrases are directly translatable.
I've got a few written down if anyone wants them.

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  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    There is none that exists, and I really would not care much for one [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • GrevenGreven Ranger
    This is not Star Trek!

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  • I doubt thoroughly that anyone has the time, patience, or desire to compile one. What would be the point?

    [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/confused.gif[/img]

    Cherio.

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  • StrikerStriker Provided with distinction
    I'd love to speak that language...it's cool. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • milodmilod Ranger
    Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

    Clerk: Sorry?

    Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

    Clerk: Uh, no, no, no. This is a tobacconist's.

    Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this *tobacconist's*, it is scratched.

    Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco...um...cigarettes (holds up a pack).

    Hungarian: Ya! See-gar-ets! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.

    Clerk: Sorry?

    Hungarian: My hovercraft (pantomimes puffing a cigarette)...is full of eels (pretends to strike a match).

    Clerk: Ahh, matches!

    Hungarian: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?

    Clerk: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.

    Hungarian: You great poof.

    Clerk: That'll be six and six, please.

    Hungarian: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?...... I...I am no longer infected.

    Clerk: Uh, may I, uh...(takes phrase book, flips through it)...Costs six and six...ah, here we are. (speaks weird Hungarian-sounding words. Hungarian punches the clerk.)

    (Meanwhile, a policeman (Graham Chapman) on a quiet street cups his ear as if hearing a cry of distress. He sprints for many blocks and finally enters the tobacconist's.)

    Cop: What's going on here then?

    Hungarian: Ah. You have beautiful thighs.

    Cop: (looks down at himself) WHAT?!?

    Clerk: He hit me!

    Hungarian: Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait 'til lunchtime. (points at clerk)

    Cop: RIGHT!!! (drags Hungarian away by the arm)

    Hungarian: (indignantly) My nipples explode with delight!

    (scene switches to a courtroom. Characters are all in powdered wigs and judicial robes, except publisher and cop.)

    Bailiff: Call Alexander Yalt!

    (voices sing out the name several times)

    Judge: Oh, shut up!

    Bailiff: (to publisher) You are Alexander Yalt?

    Publisher: (in a sing-songy voice) Oh, I am.

    Bailiff: Skip the impersonations. You are Alexander Yalt?

    Publisher: I am.

    Bailiff: You are hereby charged that on the 28th day of May, 1970, you did willfully, unlawfully, and with malice of forethought, publish an alleged English-Hungarian phrase book with intent to cause a breach of the peace. How do you plead?

    Publisher: Not guilty.

    Bailiff: You live at 46 Horton Terrace?

    Publisher: I do live at 46 Horton terrace.

    Bailiff: You are the director of a publishing company?

    Publisher: I am the director of a publishing company.

    Bailiff: Your company publishes phrase books?

    Publisher: My company does publish phrase books.

    Bailiff: On the 28th of May, you published this phrase book.

    Publisher: I did.

    Bailiff: I quote on example. The Hungarian phrase meaning "Can you direct me to the station?" is translated by the English phrase, "Please fondle my bum."

    Publisher: I wish to plead incompetence.

    ...and now for something completely different...


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  • ThodinThodin Trainee
    [quote]Originally posted by Greven:
    [b]This is not Star Trek!

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    And the award for obvious observations goes to...
    *smiles*
    I'm not intested in it for that kind of obsesiveness. That is silly. But frankly, I like the langauge! This thread was only meant as a light-hearted inquiry, not "I'm an out-of-work proffressor looking to set up a degree course in invented langauges".

    nusan taal.
  • ThodinThodin Trainee
    Striker, I thank thee!
    *smiles*
  • Dune MasterDune Master Earthforce Officer
    LOL MILOD!
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Horray Milo [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I don't think anywhere near enough of the language has been used in the show to create a phrase book. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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    The Balance provides. The Balance protects.

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  • ZosoliasZosolias Earthforce Officer
    Milod, thanks for the python, I needed that!

    This parrot is dead!

    Z
  • *smiles*
    True, but we have:
    3 numbers (9, 5, 7)
    and about 15 sentances.
    It's a start!
    hehe
    *smiles more*
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Ah Hell!

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Well you can have a phrase sheet then. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]

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    [b]Required reading: [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/[/url][/b]
    Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
    The Balance provides. The Balance protects.

    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • milod....that was great!

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  • argh! No! Tell them to stop!
  • When B5:LOTR comes out, be sure to add the rude comments about TNT to your phrasebook.
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    We don't know how their pronounced.
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    [quote]Originally posted by Zosolias:
    [b]Milod, thanks for the python, I needed that!

    This parrot is dead!

    Z[/b][/quote]


    No he's not. He's just asleep...

    God can't remember the rest of that sketch.


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