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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Or perhaps the Klingons – or their version of the Universal Translator! - simply translated the Federation Standard name literally, recognizing that “dominion” is an actual word.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> lojmIt tI'wI'nuv [mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com] <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The thing that bothers me about definitions like "Dominion" is that we're doing in Klingon the same thing we're doing in English. Likely, The Dominion doesn't call itself "The Dominion". It's a proper name we made up, based on a common noun that describes the thing we've named.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So, when we put in definitions like this, we really need to recognize that {ngup'a'} has two meanings. One is the proper noun and the other is the common noun. It's like {matlh}. It's the verb "be loyal" and it's the proper name Maltz.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>... or maybe Klingon doesn't have a proper name for The Dominion. They are just one of many "major authorities" and when we translate to English, which DOES have a proper noun for this group, we translate it as "The Dominion".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Apr 4, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.25pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>De'vID: <br>I've photographed all the cards and put them online. You should be able to access them at this link:<font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/117851035855826465807/KlingonMonopoly?authkey=Gv1sRgCJSd-dThzIbgpAE">https://picasaweb.google.com/117851035855826465807/KlingonMonopoly?authkey=Gv1sRgCJSd-dThzIbgpAE</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>Another new word I noticed (has it been mentioned here before?) is {ngup'a'} "Dominion":<br><br> <font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></font>ngup'a' Duj Dajon.<br><font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></font> Commandeer Dominion vessel. MKE<br>--<br>Voragh<br>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div></body></html>