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Re: how to say "any"

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: how to say "any"
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:41:16 -0500

Jeff Zeitlin writes:
>[...]
>        {vulqangan Hol} is the language of Vulcans (the
>        inhabitants of Vulcan).
>[etc.]
>  This, of course, assumes that there is only one language (or
>  one official language) on a planet.

Thus one might also be able to say {vulqan Hol} or {tera' Hol}, no?

>  It also implies that Klingons originally were inhabitants of
>  *{tlhI} or *{tlhIn}.  Wherezzat?

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, "Kling" is a district or city
on the Klingon Homeworld.  The scriptwriters apparently intended for it
to be the name of the Homeworld, but decided it sounded pretty silly.

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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