tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 05 14:57:36 1997
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Re: name question
- From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: name question
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:01:56 -0500
ghItlh Marc
Also, what's with the fixation on names being nouns? There are languages
> where names are full sentences (as here). Compare the example cited,
> "Dances with Wolves" or various common nouns in Cherokee (old words for
> "automobile" included "it goes on rubber coverings" and "it stares"
> [reference to the headlights]; the name of the town of Nowata translates
to
> "water is all gone."). To be sure, Klingon isn't Cherokee, but neither
is
> it English. No need to fear non-nominal names. Compare Maltz' name,
which
> is "matlh": a verb, "to be loyal." And there's Kang (qeng), another
verb.
I have no fixation on names being nouns. As has been stated, the name is
up to the nam-ee. I simply didn't want to mislead Caryn into thinking that
*voq* was a direct translation of her middle name "Faith". It isn't.
SuSvaj