Re: Star Trek

But Duane's Rihannsu novels predate TNG.  SInce then, we've seen a very
different Romulan language and culture - just as the Klingons we got
starting in Star Trek III bore no resemblance to those of John M. Ford's Final
Reflection.  The version of Remus in Insurrection, for instance, is
completely irreconcilable with the Rihannsu version.  So I don't think you
can draw any inferences from the books about the nature of the Romulan
language.

That said, I love the concept.  Going back to the protolanguage and
artificially evolving it in ways that are deliberately what they consider to
be exactly the opposite of how the real modern language developed?  That is
a totally awesome way to develop a conlang. :)

On 5/18/06, daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...> wrote:
>
> > > What else?
> > Romulans and Vulcans, at least.
>
> "Which *does* make sense because Romulans are Vulcan emigrants. They are
> the
> same species."
>
>
> I don't know how familiar any of you are with the expanded ST-Universe,
> meaning the novels. Diane Duane wrote "The Romulan Way" among others in
> which she describes the emigration of the Vulcans that were to become the
> Romulans, or "Rihannsu" in their language.
>
> According to Duane, Romulans speak what is essentially a conlang. They
> constructed a language based upon Old High Vulcan and "aged" the language
> in
> a different direction from Surak's contemporary colloquial language. It is
> quite conceivable that the language will have developed further after
> emigration. The development of Vulcan would no doubt have been faster
> because of native development dynamics and the longer time of development.
> The Romulan ships were generation ships without warp capability, so they
> were travelling at relativistic speeds and while the voyage itself took
> about 150 years ca. 800 years had passed on Vulcan.
> Dan
>


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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