tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 15 10:13:19 1995
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Re: Q
On 15 Nov 95 at 7:24, Jarno Peschier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mmm, my first comment would be this: considering that language is probably
> much older than the discovery of photons and the invention of shields,
> phasers, torpedoes and rifles (even though Klingons might be "more advanced"
> in this field then we ;-)), I find it very strange that the names of
> individual letters would include these words...
Does shield refer only to the shields of space ships? We have seen
Klingon shields hanging in Worf's quarters, I think the term covers
both ideas.
> Or are you suggesting the above list as a sort of "alfa, pappa, romeo, tango
> [etc]" alfabet? With words "made up" to represent letters when spelling
> something?
There you go, that was my intent. I didn't mean to imply that these
were the actual names of the letters, just a military jargon that
could be used by "modern" Klingon warriors.
> Jarno Peschier
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