Re: VL - Vulcan in Vulcan Saul Epstein Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:22:21 -0500 At 09:06 AM 10/20/97 M, Pat wrote: >So far, it seems we have 3 words for Vulcan: W~L'q'n, T'Khasi, and ah'hrak. > Maybe it's like the different names the Esximos have for snow. Perhaps all >three are legitimate and discribe different concepts of the "home world". Exactly. In English we have "earth," which overlaps "soil" and "land;" we have "planet," borrowed from Greek, which didn't orignally apply to THIS planet; we have "world," which overlaps with "universe;" we have the still rare "Terra," borrowed from Latin; we have new coinages like "ecosphere," to describe that part of the planet participating in ecology. Perhaps "w~l'q'n," if there is such a word, refers to all the planets settled by Vulcans, and originally meant something like "neighborhood." But there might still be a district on the home planet called "w~l'q'n," dating from the time when that area was the "neighborhood" of the dialect or language responsible for the word. And it could be that particular word designated a kind of relationship between people for which no word was available in other languages, so that it became the word for "Vulcans" in general, as opposed to members of a particular House. The possibilities are endless. -- from Saul Epstein liberty uit net www johnco cc ks us sepstein "Surak ow'pha:per the's'hi the's'cha'; the's'pha:dzhar the's'hi surakecha'." -- K'dvarin Ursw~l'at