Voting & Language
Mark R. Gardner 
Wed, 08 Jul 1998 21:22:18 -0700

I think we missed some of the postings, so we are unclear of what this
voting issue is 100% about.  We will abstain.

On the issue of translations, those of us at the Vulcan Language
Institute will defer to the ZC Vulcan experts in translating the strips
of contemporary Star Trek materials into Modern Vulcan.  If, in the
future, some of these strips delve into historical Vulcan themes, we
would ask that the language used there be Old High Vulcan.  Seems
reasonable to have Surak and comtemporaries speak their own language.

We have always liked movies where the characters speak their own
language, for example, German, Japanese or Italian in WWII movies,
instead of all English.  The same goes for Vulcan speech:  We would love
to see it in the native tongue whenever possible, whether it be Old High
Vulcan, "ZC" Modern Vulcan, or any of the several lesser known Vulcan
languages we've only had occasional exposure to in fandom.  Also, we
feel, that with his obvious racial variation, probably meaning from a
far distant part of Vulcan we rarely see, Tuvok probably speaks a
"regional dialect" in addition to Modern Vulcan.

Mark R. Gardner
Audrée McCann
Vulcan Language Institute