tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 06 12:52:31 1995
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Choosing a Klingon name
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Choosing a Klingon name
- Date: Sat, 6 May 95 15:52:29 EDT
Two posts have asked about how to choose a Klingon name.
Basically there are no real rules, though I could suggest a
couple guidelines:
A name should probably be a single word, rather than several.
A name may have a meaning, though it is at LEAST as valid to
make one up which has no meaning at all. The major danger here
is, of course, that Okrand might later define such a name to
mean something you might not like...
It should preferably be made of "legal" Klingon syllables. By
that, I mean:
1. The character combinations "ch", "gh", "ng", and "tlh" are
each considered to be a single consonant, since they are
effectively letters of the Klingon alphabet. Also the
apostrophe (glottal stop) is considered to be a consonant as is
the "y".
2. Most Klingon syllables consist of a single consonant
followed by a single vowel followed by another consonant.
3. Some syllables lack the final consonant.
4. Some syllables have two consonants after the vowel, but that
is only true for the combinations "rgh", "y'" and "w'".
Some names here do not follow these conventions. One presumes
these persons were names during some other Empiror's
occupation, or from some area dominated by another dialect...
It is strongly prefered that your name be unique. So far, that
has not been a problem here. I got mine as a derivative of my
Human name. William had no direct translation, but William, the
Conqueror fit well into charghwI'. Krankor (Qanqor), so far as
I know, just made his name up. Holtej chose his name from his
profession (like Qel). It is a personal decision. You should
probably spend a little time thinking about it until you find
the sound that you will be satisfied to be called by for a long
time.
That is, after all, the most important part of the decision.
charghwI'
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