[tlhIngan Hol] I h-a-t-e transliteration

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 14 23:12:12 PDT 2019


On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 02:05, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:

> There’s actually a whole class of canonical words that bug me precisely
> because they’re obviously transliterations of proper nouns that originated
> on Earth. I’m talking about {DenIb}, {reghuluS}, and {'orayya'}. Okay, it
> makes sense for Humans to call people Denebians, Regulans, and Orions if
> they come from Deneb, Regulus, or the general direction of Orion compared
> to Earth, but why would Klingons use those names? It’s hard to think of an
> in-universe explanation that makes sense. Was all of the Klingon Empire’s
> early contact with these people mediated by Earth or the Federation? Are
> those names actually based on native names, and they just coincidentally
> sound like names out of Earth’s astronomical charts? And don’t get me
> started on Romulus and Remus…
>

It's established Star Trek canon that the Olympian gods are real, so that
at least gives a way to explain some of the naming.

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De'vID
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