tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 18:24:38 1995
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Re: "Klinzhai" font / Worf
- From: [email protected] (Lee Dohm)
- Subject: Re: "Klinzhai" font / Worf
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 18:08:28 -0800
>Alan Anderson had written, in part:
>> ... It's obviously apocryphal, since one of the characters is for the
>> sound of the letter F. There's no q/Q distinction...
>
>I wouldn't be too hasty to call Klinzhai apocryphal. In TKD's foreward,
>Okrand mentions that the favored Klingon dialect can change depending on
>who's in power in council. Klinzhai may be viewed as a dialect now out of
>favor. Worf might have been named using this or some other dialect, rather
>than the "favored" tlh-H dialect. His parents might have named him thusly
>for any of anumber of reasons: as an affront to council, to declare their
>independence from it, because of their cultural heritage, etc.
This is a good point, and one that I had not considered, but even such, he
mentions mainly that the words and grammar changes, not the basic phonemes...
Also, they could have named Worf to keep in line with a previous council's
"favored" dialect, then having done so couldn't change it when a new council
came to power.
lIyjan