[303] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Once more....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 6 10:26:37 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Michael Everson <EVERSON@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 06 May 92 13:39:50 GMT
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 5 May 92 20:13:46 -0400 from <krankor@IMA.ISC.COM>
On Tue, 5 May 92 20:13:46 -0400 Captain Krankor said:
>
>tlhIngan Hol is *explicitly* NOT based on any specific terran language
>or type of terran language. According to Okrand himself, he incorporated
>all sorts of things, from native american to chinese, and if he noticed
>he was putting too much of any one language into it, he explicitely made
>an effort to back off and use a different source. So any attempt to infer
>things from any terran language is probably barking up the wrong tree.
>
There are some pleasant things about which we can folk-etymologize, however.
Isn't it interesting that the Klingon word for blood ('Iw) sounds so much
like an English squeal of disgust? Eeooooooh.
Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: +353-1-706-2745 Fax: +353-1-283-7778
