Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 21:12 |
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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Arek Bellagio wrote:
> >> 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?
>
The prosthetic worn by actors playing Betazoids is a black lens that
obscures all colour between the pupil and the albumen of the eye. It took
me several seasons of STTNG before I found a reference to this and took
the point of looking out for it. If this is consistant for all species on
Betazed of the same phylum then it is something that might be marked as
being unBetazoid in Betazoid languages.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
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