tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 12 20:21:46 1994
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Klingon Colors (was: Re: tam poHvo')
- From: Topic Goran <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon Colors (was: Re: tam poHvo')
- Date: Fri, 13 May 94 14:21:44 METDST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "David E G Sturm, Sturm & Drang Inc." at May 13, 94 1:21 am
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
> chargwI' writes:
>
> >...
> >...one of the novels posits that Klingons can see into what humans call
> ultraviolet...
> >Basically, until someone writes something more like an encyclopedia...
>
> And to answer your query at last, the two colors mentioned are transcribed
> as "amarklor" and "kalish". I suspect that these would appear something
> as >'amartlhor< and >qeylIS< or >qalIS<. These came to light in the
> novel _Pawns and Symbols_ by Majliss Larson.
Which is bull for Klingon... 'amartlhor has THREE syllables!!! Whoever heard
of a three-syllabled verb?!? {{:^)
> As a physicist, I can tell you that there is a range of ultraviolet beyond
> violet that would be available for sight, but actually only a small sliver.
> Around 2500 Angstroms, it is not possible for ultraviolet to be transmitted
> in a 78% N2 20% O2 atmosphere like ours on Earth. However this leaves a
> range from 2500 to 3500 that we do not exactly detect with the 3 ranges
> human eyes operate in. Presumably Klingons would have a different phot
> osensitive chemical in the eye. The book aptly describes this, I recommend
> its discussion. ;
And again, there is a little bit of inconsistency: "Pawns and Symbols"
(BTW, what would it be? Qujghotmey HechwI'mey je?) also presumes that
Klingon eye, while perceiving amarklor and kalish beyond violet,
is not sensitive in red spectrum. From what I gathered, they would probably
consider red giants to be big hot black stars. Why have a word for red, then?
> Dave.
Qapla' qoranvo'