[89612] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: 'oghwI' lut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Roney, Jr. PKT)
Mon Sep 12 11:57:10 2011
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:51:01 -0400
From: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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jatlh jhb:
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orayangan - Orion. I saw this term on the KLI's Extended Corpus page.
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From the EC page:
"(phrase) A Klingon term that means "Orion". It is used to refer to someone
who pushes their subordinates like an Orion slaver."
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This brings up an interesting question on species names.
The general rule is planet name plus -ngan.
But then we have the word <Human> in addition to <tera'ngan>.
IIRC, Orions are from the Rigel system.
(And it seems that most, if not all, of the planets are habitable.)
So <*rayghelngan> would make sense.
But they don't call themselves Rigeleans, they're Orions.
And I don't see the first meeting between the two groups including the
phrase"We're Orions, but we're from the Rigel system, it's over there."
So I guess that brings us back to *orayangan.
We'll need to adjust this a bit to fit the CVC system.
Currently we have o-ray-a-ngan.
The simple solution would be 'o-ray-'a-ngan.
But I think I prefer 'o-ray-ngan.
~naHQun
'orayngan toy'wI''a' mechwI'
~Michael Roney, Jr.
Professional Klingon translator
webOS developer
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