[88195] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon in other languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict)
Tue Aug 24 02:57:26 2010
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:52:17 -0400
From: MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Since Klingons were around long before tlhIngan Hol, the Japanese word
("kuringon-go") is almost certainly from the English "Klingon" rather than
Klingon "tlhIngan".
lay'tel SIvten
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In Japanese it would be pronounced phonetically and written in katakana - a
> character set which, like kanji, I fear I cannot reproduce here.
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> The "tlh" of "tlhIngan Hol" is not pronounceable as such in Japanese.
> Instead, Japanese uses the closest syllables, in this case "ku ri na n."
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> The word for "language" is "go".
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> kurinango - Klingon language
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> Wish I could show you the kana and kanji.
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