tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 27 09:25:33 1995
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
RE: "English"
On Fri, 27 Jan 1995 ADM::[email protected] wrote:
> Has anyone considerd the perhaps too sensible solution: "'englIS"?
one problem: there is no canon instance of *<'englIS>* in any known
klingon text. (known by me, anyways.) see, what a lot of people (me,
and some others on this list) want is NOT a new klingon word. this, to
me, is a new klingon word; if i use this in a sentence to a beginner, and
he/she tries to figure out what i wrote, they aren't going to find
*<'englIS>* in the dictionary. instead, most people want to use
>tera'ngan Hol< or >DIvI' Hol<, even though they aren't quite correct,
just because they are actual klingon words.
me, i prefer to use >*English* Hol<, where *English* is a word in english
that has no translation (or an unknown translation) into klingon. this
allows me to use english words in a klingon sentence without the chance
of confusing a beginner. it also avoids having to pick from ten or
twenty different ways to transliterate "English" into klingon phonemes.
(i think that's what they're called.)
> Another point here is to consider whether we're asking the right question.
> I think that question ought to be "What do Klingons call the lingua franca
> of Federation personnel?"
now, that would be >DIvI' Hol< -- Federation Standard. not necessarily
english (although that's what we hear on the show), but one assumes that.
--naQ'avwI'
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlhchugh "[email protected]"Daq jabbI'IDmeylIj yIngeH
*&* Silauren, Half-Elven *&* Jeremy Greene *&* There's only ONE god!
*&* [email protected] *&* Don't drop acid. *&* He is the SUN god!!
*&* [email protected] *&* Take it Pass/Fail. *&* Ra! Ra!! RA!!!
*&* "Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!" -Han Solo