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Re: typo? jan kalI'qoS

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

Voragh:
>> >Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:23:40 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>STAR TREK COMMUNICATOR  (#104, Aug-Sep 1995)
>>tlhIngan jabbI'ID le'   Special Klingon issue
>>
>>ghotpu' tamey           Personnel Files
>>     [snip]
>>     jan kalI'qoS            John Colicos
>>
>>I don't have the page refs, as I don't own a copy of this Official Fan Club
>>magazine, but I trust the source.

lay'tel SIvten wrote:
>in this old email, which i think i got from klingonska.org archives, it
>mentions the klingon rendering of "John Colicos" as {jan kalI'qoS}.  of 
>course, the
>'k' should be a {q}.  is the 'k' in the original text?

No, it isn't.  The Klingon is a direct copy-and-paste from my files, but 
the name is correctly written with a /q/ as {qalI'qoS} in the original.  I 
don't know how the /k/ appeared.  Perhaps a glitch during transmission of 
the email by me to the List, or from the List to the klingonska.org archives.

>if it is, should it be silently converted to {q} when giving this name in 
>klingon?

Of course.  There is no /k/ in Okrand's transcription system.

>and if so, should all such obvious typos be similarly treated?

Always.  Not everyone on the List is a professional typist - not even the 
people at Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books), as there are a few typos in TKD 
and KGT that were not caught in editing.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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