[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng

Adm qe'San qeSan at btinternet.com
Wed Aug 21 11:52:50 PDT 2013


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Boozer [mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu]
> Sent: 21 August 2013 15:36
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng
> 
> *{'engpuH} "England" has been used by the KSRP and on {bo logh}, Qov's
> Klingon blog; cf. {wo' tay'} "United Kingdom."

An email excerpt from Marc:

Finally, for UK -- You're right.  I had forgotten about wo' tay'.  I think,
though, for the CD, we should stick with tuqjIjQa'.  If someone should ask
why there are two names for the same country, I'd say that (1) it's not
impossible for one country to be referred to (especially in a
language/culture not of that country) by more than one name
(Holland/Netherlands, for example), and (2) wo' tay' is an older name --
perhaps the Klingons who gave it that name were thinking of the British
Empire.

  - Marc




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