[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - First Words

[David Trimboli]

On 11/4/2011 10:52 PM, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh wrote:
>
> A small part of me was disappointed, since it's said that Klingons
> have a history of naval warfare in TKW, and a little part of me was
> hoping they'd have a distinct word for a sea-going ship. But I guess
> the word Duj might have been the original word for "ship", and only
> later became used for spaceships (as happened in English).

I'm just guessing, but this may have been caused by the use of "ship" 
for "space vehicle" in 20th century science-fiction. Unless a non-Terran 
culture happens to have a similar period, there's no telling where their 
space-technology terminology will come from.

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