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Re: Just a thought REPOST [name of the Klingon homeworld]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 20 08:16:54 1993
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From: dongray@genrad.com (Derek Dongray)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Cc: DONGRAY@genrad.com
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 93 06:14:43 -0400
> _Conversation Klingon_ strongly implies the Klingon homeworld is Kronos
> (Qo'noS, I think). Various other materials based on John Ford's Klingon
> society (which has an incompatible language, although in _How Much for
> Just the Planet_ he blended his own Klingon language with Okrand's)
> state the Klingon homeworld is "Klinzhai", which would work as
> "tlhInSay".
>
> Qo'noS is probably "official", but I am more partial to tlhInSay myself.
>
> -'avrIn
>
> Erich Schneider erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu
We also have at least two names in English, i.e. Earth and Terra.
A Klingon might analyse some English words thus:
American = Americ[a] + -an
Roman = Rom[e] + -an
Venusian = Venus + -[i]an
Terran = Terr[a] + -an
Romulan = Romul[us] + -an [maybe an adopted word?]
Klingon = Klingon [adopted word, s/be Klingan?]
From this he might deduce:
Human = Hum[?] + -an
Hence the Human homeworld is called Hum; or perhaps Humus or even Human.
Of course, he might deduce that Human is evolved/corrupted from Homan (perhaps
the transliteration from English makes the two similar) and that the root name
is simply Home!
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