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Re: WorFFF?

• From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: WorFFF?
• Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 16:38:09 -0500 (EST)
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]> ([email protected])

>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 13:13:57 -0800
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>December 15, 1996 9:55 AM, jatlh Derick:
>
>> I was thinking and I don't know where the name Worf comes from. Klingons
>> don't have the letter F so can a Klingon be called WorF?
>
>We have learned that the (apparantly) correct pronunciation of his name is 
>{wo'rIv}.
>
>> Can anybody say where the F comes from?
>
>Badly transliterated human speech.  Federation Standard biases.

Okrand also said, at a panel in Huntsville, that Klingon are like some
Terran cultures in which people have more than one name, including names
that are used for outsiders or in public.  Those "outsider" names needn't
even be valid Klingon, because they're not meant for proper Klingon speech.

~mark

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