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:
 
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