<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 8:34 AM Lieven Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Good morning!<br>
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while working on the wiki I notived something that made me wonder:<br>
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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. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OTOH, all loanwords probably are Terran things, most likely (except for very few in-universe things).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
So my point is: Does it make sense to have these two categories? Shouldn't it be just "loanword for terran things"?<br>
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I'm interested in your opinions.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Whether it makes sense to distinguish the two depends on what specifically you're trying to identify with your "loanword" and "Terran" markers. </div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>