tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 12 15:40:06 2002
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Re: Klingon names
Chelsea writes:
>Hmm. I thought it was some kind of greeting, because the person that
>wrote it had it like this: "ghItlh Qelra'" at the beginning of an email
>to me.
Nope. It's a citation: {ghItlh Qelra'} "Qelra' writes".
Indeed, the verb {ghItlh} is most commonly translated as
"write," but it always refers to the act of writing--that
is, of making marks on some surface--not to the act of
composition. Its use in the contexts of both sculpting and
writing suggests that writing began as carving. (KGT p.79)
Most of us assume that {ghItlh} is also used for the mechanical act of
typing on a keyboard.
For the "act of composition" we have another verb: {qon} "compose, create a
composition, write". {qon} is also the verb for "record".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons