tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 30 19:35:45 1995
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Re: Word for `English'
- From: [email protected] (Arden R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Word for `English'
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:56:48 -0800
Roger Sorensen writes:
>Arden R. Smith had written, in part, in response to the question:
>What is the full proper name of THE Federation as in Star Trek stories?
>>
>> The full name is "The United Federation of Planets" (I'll leave it to the
>> more adept to come up with a Klingon translation of that).
>
>In TKD, Okrand supplies a translation which I think was " yuQjij DI'vI' "
>(I don't have my dictionary handy right now - sorry if I got it wrong). I
>remember it translating back to English as federation of cooperating
>planets.
Yes, the name is indeed translated in TKD; I don't know why I didn't even
bother to reach for the book when I wrote that message. The name is
rendered in the English-Klingon section as yuQjIjDIvI' but in the
Klingon-English section as yuQjIjQa'. I don't suppose that that last
element is Qa' `type of animal' (The United Rhinoceros of Planets? The
United Three-Toed Sloth of Planets? The United Bunny-Rabbit of Planets?)
{{:-)
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