tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 02 10:40:06 2003
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Re: Spelling of Sto'vo'kor?
> > > Is the proper 'translation' of Sto'vo'kor ...
> > > (Klingon 'heaven') known? If not, opinions on how it could be spelled?
> >
> >I've always spelled it So-vo-qor, but in the back of my mind I remember
> >reading
> >a piece from MO that had SIto'vo'qor, but I have not yet been able to
> >find that
> >source again, so now I don't know if I really did see that or not.
> >
> >So... we don't know how it is spelled with the system that we use.
>
> Actually, we may: {Suto'vo'qor}. (Yes, with a /u/ instead of the expected
> /I/!) My notes say that Marc Okrand provided a few words Keith R.A.
> DeCandido's novel "Diplomatic Implausibility" where this spelling is to be
> found. The glossary in the back of the novel goes on to define Sto-Vo-Kor
> as "the afterlife for the honored dead, where all true warriors go after
> they die to fight an eternal battle. The closest Klingon equivalent to
> heaven."
That's where I saw it! So I wasn't completely nuts.
Now, did we ever confirm that this was one of the words provided by MO?
The gloss in that book doesn't list which words are from MO.
DloraH