tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 13 08:13:55 1995
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Re: vocabulary
>Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:32:08 -0800
>From: "Christian Matzke" <[email protected]>
>On 11 Nov 95 at 13:34, Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> I have always used {juHHov} "Home's star" simply because the Klingons of
>> TNG always talked about "Homeworld".
>Mr. Proechel does this too. He has presented a similar argument as
>the one you have above, even pointing out the existence of juHqo' for
>the above mentioned "Homeworld". I would accept either, they both make sense
>to me. juHHov sounds much more Trek-ish than pem Hov to me -not a bad
>thing. I would let the situation dictate which word I would choose.
I think that makes sense. "juHHov" certainly makes sense in some
situations ("He's flying straight toward the sun!"). I'd tend to use "pem
Hov" or something in more down-to-Qo'noS situations ("Aaah... it's so
pleasant to see the sun shine on the water.")
~mark