tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 08 19:01:03 1997
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Re: bIH chaH ghap
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: bIH chaH ghap
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 22:01:03 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from Steven Boozer on Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:32:12 -0800)
>Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 17:32:12 -0800
>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
>Not much help there. Hmm... I wonder which pronouns would be used for
>language-capable androids like Data and Lore? Worf, I believe, always
>addressed Data--his superior officer--as "he/him" in Fed Standard, though
>he may have just been copying the humans around him.
They're beings capable of using language, right? By which I mean not just
mechanically producing speech-sounds, but with sentient minds of their
own. Why shouldn't they be "chaH"? Just because they aren't made of
flesh? That isn't a criterion, is it?
~mark