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Romulan Encyclopedia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 3 11:41:54 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 11:22:43 -0500
>From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
> k)
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 17:54:08 EST
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>I believe Okrand mentioned the _Romulan Chrestomathy_. I don't know whether
>there is an actual Romulan language (though I strongly suspect there are bits
&
>pieces floating around), but a friend of mine says he has a Vulcan phrasebook.
>However, ~mark has mentioned that Vulcan is not so much a language of its own
>as thinly disguised Japanese. Go figure......
I don't think it was I who said that when it was brought up on this list a
while ago, but from what I recall it's very true. That little phrase book
really does appear to be little more than Japanese.
I dunno... for some reason I seem to favor the idea that Vulcans would have
liked Volap"uk... :-)
~mark
