tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 28 17:46:47 1996
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Re: Streets
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Streets
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:04:52 -0600
peHruS writes:
>In Chinese...Tao is pretty broad.
It corresponds very closely with Latin "via" and English "way".
>In conclusion, {He} works for me.
Of course, Klingon is not Chinese (or Latin, or English). I expect that
many of us would understand {He} if it were used to refer to a physical
path or roadway, even if we hadn't had this discussion, but that's not a
good argument that we should use it that way. The question ought to be:
Would Maltz understand it? :-) I suspect that *because* so many natural
[Terran] languages have a single word for a very broad concept of "way",
Klingon does *not*.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj