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Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

From:Arek Bellagio <zadar@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 22, 1998, 23:42
At 12:42 PM 12/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Andrew Smith wrote: >> Even Deanna found >> his behaviour uncomfortable as he violated social codes that his society >> took for granted. > >Hmm, his behavior being his telepathy? Quite interesting, I suppose it >would be like a child speaking as an adult in our society.
No..I believe this is the case of what happened in 'Tin Man': Normally, Betazoid telepathic abilities dont surface until adolenscence. It's probable that they slowly surface within a few years, so undoubtedly these newly telepathic adolescents are trained on how to shut off their telepathic abilities, and thus use them at will so that they dont _always_ hear peoples thoughts. This is supported with a novel called 'Guises Of The Mind' (a TNG novel) in which a woman who has telepathic abilities (or something similar) learns, by help of Deanna Troi, how to block outside telepathy, thus learning to use her abilities only when she wanted to. To continue, apparently some Betazoids are born with their telepathic abilities already developed and active. And they eventually are practically driven insane and lead solitude lives, because they never were able to learn to control their abilities, so they remain active constantly. It would be like one of us entering a supermarket and hearing each and every little though that passed through everyone's minds, because we never learned to control our abilities. So, Tam Elbrun (the character I've been speaking of) acts very uncomfortably because of his 'disability'.
> >> Would a Betazoid language have a single word for the iris of an eye? > >Why wouldn't they?
Agreed; why wouldn't they? Or perhaps; how do you mean? Is there a reason why there shouldn't be a single word? Hope this helps..