[2625] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan Hol qun vIwam - an article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 02:11:13 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: TruthSeeker <dh39@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 06:28:23 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <199401190325.8908@krang.vis.mu.OZ.AU> from "Nick NICHOLAS" at Jan
19, 94 02:25:03 pm
Re: Other Trek languages.
I, too, can see the ideals behind the creation of Romulan and Ferengi
languages. But wasn't the Vulcan language rebuilt after the Reformation? The
original would have had all the irregular, illogical verbs - surely they would
have restructured the language at that point? There is evidence (OK, from the
novels) that this happened, and that Romulan was an offshoot of "Old High
Vulcan", the language that words such as "kunat kalifee", "Kroykah" and "pon
farr" come from.
I speak without authority. I speak from within. And I'm gonna buy the khesting
dictionary this weekend if it _kills_ me!
>>>> Daniel J. Howell <<<< # Know that if there are gods, they do not help,
University of Brighton, UK. # and justice belongs to the strong; yet all done
>> dh39@ac.uk.bton.vaxk << # under the naked stars will be remembered.
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(I'm not even certain these are my views. How could they be anyone else's?)
(Genuine translation to follow - done by me.)
