Re: Sev Trek-translation Rob Zook Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:41:39 -0500 At 09:16 AM 4/7/98 -0700, Marketa J Zvelebil wrote: >As you say: Holodoc: could say Cease to speak, Vulcans naturally have a >word for kiss. Mastering emotins doesn't mean they do not have them and >considerring that they were highly emotional before Surak - they will >have all the words. >It would be illogical to get rid of old literature. They may just not use >them, or only use emotional words in mind-link with their partners. Or perhaps they would simply use them in private, since it's emotional displays in public which I believe Vulcans frown on the most. I suspect they would also use them in a purely descriptive manner, during the process of learning control. I think they would also have a wide, expressive range of emotional interjections similar to English, Yikes!, Ugh!, and Yuck! Likely not used much, and frowned upon in public; but as you say, no doubt quite prevelant in pre-reformation literature. Rob Z. -------------------------------------------------------- The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. -- Frank Zappa