tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 03 19:39:10 1997
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Re: revise Hamlet
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Eliseo d'Annunzio, Esq. wrote:
|That reminds me... in going through Hamlet, I couldn't help noticing the
|phrase QonoSnganpu' in the Dramatis Personae section :). Now, taking into
|account that the only natives to Kronos are Klingon, as far as I know, why
|not we just have used tlhInganpu' ? I mean, sure it follows logical
|tlhIngan Hol that we have tera'ngan is to tera', vulqangan is to vulqan,
|and romuluSngan is to romuluSngan, but what would be the English
|transliteration for QonoSngan? Kronosian? If so, why do we have Klingon
|(tlhIngan) to describe these natives to begin with?
Why does English have "human," "man," "mankind," "Terran," "Earther" and
"homo sapiens"? We only need one term, don't we?
Voragh