Re: New Language: Borg

At 09:36 PM 9/24/98 -0400, Sally Caves wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
>> I think I'm misleading you.  "So close" was a joke (actually, I don't
>> know anything about Celtic phonology, so maybe it is close).  At any
>> rate, the consonants of Borg are taken straight from Arabic and the vowels
>> from Italian (per "Major Languages of the World").  I was thinking more
>> of the morphology.  On this level, Borg is almost a relex of another
>> language (albeit somewhat twisted).
>>
>Terry, I was going to say Klingon...but with great reservation as I've
>mislaid, it seems, my dictionary, and can only remember a few features of
>that language (its monosyllabism, its postpositions, I THNK its VSO
>structure... I was unsure about the vowel gradations).  You didn't specify
>that it was a natural language that you were imitating, and Klingon is
>perhaps a little obvious/ludicrous that these are the Borg... but?
>
No, sorry.  The VSO order is actually one of the departures from the
original language, and the similarity of the CvC root structure
to Klingon's is just a co-incidence.

-- Terry