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Re: questions, questions, and questions

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: questions, questions, and questions
• Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 19:00:46 -0500

Chet Braun writes:
>1.  Hung qorDu for 'Hung Family' or 'House of Hung' (where Hung is the
>    family name).

Now that we have examples of apposition, perhaps that would apply here.
I know that in English we can say either "the Von Trapp family" or
"the family Von Trapp" (though the latter is rather formal-sounding).
Neither seems quite the same to me as "Von Trapp's family", so I'm
reluctant to invoke the "possessive" noun-noun construction.  Except
we know that Klingon families/clans are identified as "House of Duras"
etc.; maybe the translation SHOULD be literal.  Alas, there's no simple
word for "house" in either the "building" or "clan" sense. :-(  Does
{qorDu''a'} suggest a "clan"?  Perhaps {Hung qorDu''a'} is reasonable.

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