tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 04 12:34:29 1998
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Re: Question from a newbie
Paul Hahn <[email protected]> writes:
>Now do you see where the problem is? MO says that (a) tlhIngan scales
>are nonatonic, (b) they have eight note names, and (c) that they repeat
>at the nonave. They can't all be right--(a) indicates one more note in
>the scale than (b) and (c). Since (c) is what he said when somebody
>asked for clarification and agrees with (b), I'm assuming (a) is just an
>error on his part caused by his not knowing much music theory.
Or Klingon music theory might differ from English music theory. Perhaps
in Klingon, "nonatonic" means there are eight distinct note names and the
ninth one is a repeat of the first. After all, {-Qo'} is labeled a rover
by Klingon grammarians, even though it doesn't really fit the definition
of a roving suffix as English grammarians would understand it. Obviously
there is a mismatch between the definitions of "rover" here.
Calling the Klingon musical scale "nonatonic" is only an error if you
insist on applying non-Klingon definitions to a Klingon concept.
-- ghunchu'wI'