tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 01 17:36:56 1996
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Re: how to say "any"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: how to say "any"
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:41:16 -0500
Jeff Zeitlin writes:
>[...]
>        {vulqangan Hol} is the language of Vulcans (the
>        inhabitants of Vulcan).
>[etc.]
>  This, of course, assumes that there is only one language (or
>  one official language) on a planet.
Thus one might also be able to say {vulqan Hol} or {tera' Hol}, no?
>  It also implies that Klingons originally were inhabitants of
>  *{tlhI} or *{tlhIn}.  Wherezzat?
According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, "Kling" is a district or city
on the Klingon Homeworld.  The scriptwriters apparently intended for it
to be the name of the Homeworld, but decided it sounded pretty silly.
-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj