On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 at 14:50, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
Am 01.09.2018 um 11:34 schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
Well, Terran country names seem to stand on their own, and based on the gloss I would expect the same here, but I suspect that it may depend on the speaker's familiarity with the place, or the listener's anticipated familiarity.
Yes, that's true. It's like we talk about the "Krotmag region" and so on we do so to clarify that it's a region for those who don't know that.
You mean in Klingon? The {Sep} is necessary. {Qotmagh} is a person. {Qotmagh Sep} is a place.
(as a sidenote, Sahara is arabic for desert, but that's now going too far :-) )
Actually, that's just what I was thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_redundant_place_names -- De'vID