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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/26/2017 3:15 PM, Steven Boozer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:BN4PR11MB08521DBE3B1B6BBE73E4274BC17B0@BN4PR11MB0852.namprd11.prod.outlook.com">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Do’natu vagh </b>Donatu V
(qep’a’ 2017)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">…
and royal names:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(KGT 126): In Shakespeare's original
Klingon version of <b>
HenrI' vagh</b>, known in Federation Standard as <i>Henry V</i>,
<b>HenrI'</b>, the Supreme Commander, gets into an argument with
one of his troops the night before a great battle.<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The point here is that royal names are read
out using the cardinal number (just like planet names), not the
ordinal with –<b>DIch</b> as in, say, English king
<i>Henry the Eighth. </i></p>
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<p>For slightly different reasons. <b>Do'natu vagh</b> is not <i>Donatu
Number Five;</i> the <b>vagh</b> <i>five</i> is just a label
that happens to follow a numeric sequence. <b>HenrI' vagh,</b>
however, actually is the Henry Number Five.</p>
<p>I wonder how Klingons would translate the names <i>Ingraham B</i><i>
and</i> <i>Theta Cygni XII</i>?<br>
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