Re: VL - Vulcan in Vulcan
Marketa J Zvelebil 
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:33:09 -0700

On Oct 20,  6:59pm, Adam Ophir Shapira wrote:
> Subject: Re: VL - Vulcan in Vulcan
> At 9:13 PM +0100 10/20/97, Jacqueline Y. Comben wrote:
>
> >How about the fact that T'Pau says, in Amok Time, "Art thee
> >W-L'q'n or art thee human?" In other words, it seems to me
> >W-L'q'n is canon!!!
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> T'Pau could have been speaking English, and mis-pronounced
> the English word for "Vulcan".
>
>

T'Pau would not speak English to Spock in an important occasion like his
Pon Farr. The earthlings (and we) understood what she said because of the
traslator. So she may have said the "real" name for Vulcan and the translator
translated it as Vulcan. Anyway - I really think that there will be more
than one name for the planet, and lets face it - we, probably, don't know the
REAL name because the "Vuclans" never told us.

Marketa

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