tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 24 08:16:16 2006
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Re: Qo'noS bIQDep
Shane MiQogh:
> > I think i said "yuQ Qo'noS" at one point, which would mean "Kronos
> > of planet" which makes no sence.
ghunchu'wI':
>It doesn't make sense as a possessive, but it seemed perfectly
>reasonable where you used it. The very first special TNG Skybox
>card, SP1 {Qo'noS wo'} "Empire of Kronos", has this phrase:
>
> juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS...
> ...from their homeworld of Kronos into space...
>
>I think {yuQ Qo'noS} is fine for "Planet Kronos".
As a matter of personal style, I'd tend to use {yuQ Qo'noS} as an
apposition, not a name: "the planet, Kronos, ..." For the latter, I'd put
{yuQ} after the proper name, as is usual with tags: {Qo'noS yuQ} "the
Planet Kronos". Cf. the title of SP1 that ghunchu'wI' quoted with {wo'}
used similarly as a tag: {Qo'noS wo'} "Empire of Kronos".
The only examples I could find of {yuQ} used as a tag were both proper
nouns, curiously written as one word:
{SermanyuQ} Sherman's Planet (TKD)
{HuDyuQ} a mountainous Klingon planet (Keith R.A. DeCandido's novel
_Diplomatic Implausibility_, for which Okrand provided a few words
and expressions [though we're not sure which ones])
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons