New Vulcan Words
McReynolds 
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:09:07 -0600

I don't know if any of you have the revised Star Trek Encyclopedia, but it
has a lot (~5-10) of new Vulcan words.  I'll be happy to post a list, but
I'm a little busy right now, so it will have to wait.  Obviously they're
just in the pseudo-spelling of Paramount writers; unfortunately, we'd have
to watch a lot of Voyager to hear them all and transliterate the sounds
properly.  Anyway, just thought it might be wise to include these all before
you get started with the vocab building.  Even though I haven't
participated, I'm loving the discussion here!  Things are looking pretty
good.

One thing that I do have time to mention, but I'll leave it up to you guys
(Saul, Rob, etc.) to figure out the implications with regards to grammar,
syntax, and whatnot...  We already knew about <Koon-ut-kal-if-fee>, which
translates as "marriage or challenge."  Now, from the episode "Blood Fever"
[VGR], we get <Koon-ut so'lik>, which translates as "marriage proposal."
Obviously, we can figure out what <Koon-ut>, <kal-if-fee>, and <so'lik> each
mean ("marriage," "challenge," and "proposal," respectively).  The part that
seems weird to me is how one knows if a Noun1-Noun2 construction means "N1
or N2" (as in "marriage or challenge") or if it means "N2 of N1" (as in
"proposal of marriage").  We seem to have examples of both translations.
Hmm...

In any case, expect a full word list from the book soon.

-McReynolds