Re: New Language: Borg

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Terrence Donnelly wrote:

> At 08:10 PM 9/22/98 +0100, Ray wrote:
> >>>   Hmm...biliteral roots, similar to Arabic's triliteral roots.
> >>>Phonology strongly similar to Arabic. Structure VSO, like Classical
> >>>Arabic. I'll guess...Welsh?
> >>
> >>Oooh! So close! but, no.
> >
> >So close!  Umm - not, I think, as close as Cornish or Breton, but still
> >Celtic.  Now, let's see.  That 'gh' and 'dh' and the palatalization
> >business - perhaps Irish  ;)
> >
>
> 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
>
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?

This is the second time, in ten years, that I've lost my damned Klingon
dictionary in this maelstrom of an office of mine.

Sally
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