[tlhIngan Hol] tlhIngan Hol spellings of B'Elanna and Gorkon?
De'vID
de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 00:55:15 PDT 2018
On 27 March 2018 at 17:45, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> AFAIK we have no official spelling for B'Elanna, though I generally use
> *{be'elanna} for the reasons you stated. Ditto for Gorkon though, not
> knowing it had appeared in Hamlet, I’ve used *{ghorqan} which reflects how
> it’s pronounced by human actors.
>
I, too, would've written {ghorqan} if not for the Hamlet precedent. Of
course, Hamlet only refers to someone named {ghorqon}, which isn't
necessarily the same as Star Trek VI's Chancellor.
{qeylIS Quch. ghorqon jIb} "Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself"
Could be any {ghorqon}, really.
--
De'vID
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