[tlhIngan Hol] terran loanwords

[De'vID]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 8:34 AM Lieven Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <
tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> Good morning!
>
> while working on the wiki I notived something that made me wonder:
>
> There is an option to mark a word as "loanword", and also an option to
> mark things which are explained by Maltz as "this is a Terran thing". While
> editing, I noticed that basically ALL terran things are loanwords, of
> course.


There are a few things of Terran origin which are described with purely
Klingon-origin words (not using loanwords), e.g., {may'ron raS}, {Ha'DIbaH
ghIH tIr ngogh je}, and of course the list of things which are {tera' X}
where {X} is the equivalent Klingon thing.


> OTOH, all loanwords probably are Terran things, most likely (except for
> very few in-universe things).
>

Are you counting loanwords from languages other than Federation Standard?
;-) For example, {qajunpaQ} is a loanword from a language on Krios, and
{ghormaghenDer} is likewise a loanword from another language.


> So my point is: Does it make sense to have these two categories? Shouldn't
> it be just "loanword for terran things"?
>
> I'm interested in your opinions.
>

Whether it makes sense to distinguish the two depends on what specifically
you're trying to identify with your "loanword" and "Terran" markers.

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