tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 10 13:40:26 2003
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Re: parmaqqay bomvaD
> > Erm, please be aware that "great waterland" does NOT mean "island." I
> > don't think it even comes close. This is one concept we just don't
> > have the vocabulary for.
> I don't have my copy of KGT in front of me, but didn't it include a
> word for "continent" in its discussion of the geographic subdivisions of
> Kronos? If so, perhaps that word plus -Hom would be a reasonable gloss
> of "island"?
Earlier I thought I remembered reading the "continent" somewhere also, but
didn't comment. So now I looked it up..
KGT p16
>>>
... The Klingon Homeworld
Qo'noS, usually rendered Kronos in Federation Stan-
dard, is a planet with basically one very large mass of
land surrounded by ocean; perhaps continent is a compa-
rable concept. Within the land mass are distinct areas,
some of which are demarcated geographically (divided
by a mountain range, for example), while the boundaries
of others seem rather arbitrary, the result, no doubt, of
ancient power struggles.
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No Klingon equivalent given.
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