Re: New Vulcan Words
Rob Zook 
Tue, 26 May 1998 23:33:28 -0500

At 07:23 PM 5/26/98 -0400, MDriest wrote:
>I give thanks for all these new words.
>Since the process is way over my head anyway,
>I will not ask for the derivation of each and
>every word. If Marketa approves, that's fine
>by me.

As far as I'm concerned she definitely has
the final word in our little project.


>Perhaps it would be wise to use the program
>on 'known' Vulcan words. We 'know' that Lady
>as in Lady Amanda is T'sai. What title
>would our late-Eldest Mother have if the program
>had its way?
>Same for logic, blood fever, order, universe etc.

The point being? Simple curiousity? Likely it
would pseudo-randomly pick words out of millions
of possible combinations. Words which would on
the whole resemble the vulcan dictionary statistically
speaking.


>I ask forgiveness for asking this again, but what
>is the ^ exactly?

According to the Lexicon/Grammar, it sounds similar to
the [i] in Brit. English <sir>. That is to say a center,
close-mid vowel I think. In Saul's nice IPA chart in
ASCII, that would place the ^, right about here:

        front       center      back
close       i---------+----------u
             \   I    \      U  |
close-mid     e-----^-----------o
               \       *       |
open-mid        E--------------)
                 ae     \     |
open              A-----------a


i in beat
I in bit
ei in bait
E in bet
ae in bat
A -- a Kennedy says "bark"
* in butt
u in boot
U in butcher
ou in boat
) in bought
a in botch

I could be wrong, my British pronunciation's not the best.


Rob Z.