Re: Aesthetic Language Sense
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 12, 1999, 0:26 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I think a lot of Klingon words sound appropriate in some way for their
> meanings. But what I don't like about Klingon words is how simple they are
> phonologically, even for complex concepts such as "torpedo" (DuS IIRC). I
> would think there would be more compounds out there.
Lost intervocalic consonants? What if DuS were originally a compound
word, and was simplified to DuS.
> Also, I would like to
> be able to find connections between similar words with similar meanings,
> such as 'ejDo and 'ejyo which are given in the Klingon Dictionary,
Probably an obsolete word 'ej meaning "star" or something similar.
_yo'_ means "fleet", while "Do'" is listed as "velocity", since one
meaning of 'ejyo' is "starship class", perhaps ships were once
classified primarily by speed?
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