tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 09 07:54:49 1996
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Re: Phonology
- From: Consulat General de Pologne <#[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Phonology
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 10:52:22 EDT
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Names are personal things, I guess, and some
> people would rather not worry about the language too much when it comes to
> names.
> Me, I like names to conform, so in translations I'm
> involved in I try to make them OK. But especially when dealing with one's
> own name, rules have to bend a little, since after all the one name is the
> ultimate arbiter of a name.
Well I agree 100%, but remember - my comment didn't concern personal choise
of names but rather peSHIr's "List of Klingon Names".
> It's a name, after all, and not proposed as a valid sentence or
> word or utterance.
Since when names are NOT VALID WORDS OR UTTERANCES?