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

[Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh]

jIjatlhpu':
> 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).

mujang SuStel, jatlh:
> I'm just guessing, but this may have been caused by the use of "ship"
> for "space vehicle" in 20th century science-fiction.

chaq. jISovchu'be' jIH. Though the general structure of a spacecraft has
more in common with the structure of a sea-going engine-propelled craft,
at least for Terran technology. Engine-propelled land craft are different
in fundamental ways, primarily w.r.t. propulsion.

taH:
> Unless a non-Terran culture happens to have a similar period, there's
> no telling where their space-technology terminology will come from.

Of course. I was only speculating.

QeS 'utlh