Re: Vulcan in Vulcan
Saul Epstein 
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 21:02:50 -0500

Quotes from: Steven Boozer
Date: Friday, September 4, 1998 10:25 PM
 
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Saul Epstein wrote:
> 
> >   Furthermore, I suggest that part of what Surak promoted was a
> >determination to be everyone's <welle>, to make of their entire
> >planet a <wellequano>. So that the name would have originally been
> >a socio-political layer on top of any older names for "the world"
> >that the different Vulcan cultures had.

     [...]
 
> Sound's fine... except that I just remembered we already know the
> word for the planet Vulcan, widely used in pro- and fan-fiction:
> T'Khas, or T'Khasi. 
>
> I believe it appears inter alia in Duane's _Spock's World_.
> *ah'Hrak* "The Forge" is also used as a term for the whole planet
> (SW p,204), pars pro toto. 

<t'khas>/<t'khasi> and <ah'hrak> qualify as "older names for 'the
world' that..,different Vulcan cultures had." I do not propose that
<whl'q'n> replaced such names, any more than "Yuwenne" is likely to
replace "Earth."

> I would suggest slightly adjusting *whl'q'n* to mean both "Vulcans"
> as a group as well as the word used for Vulcan values, Vulcan
> civilization, Vulcan culture, etc.  Thus the inhabitants of T'Khas
> refer to themselves as whl'q'n, much as those of Earth call
> themselves Human.

Or perhaps as those of Earth call themselves Humanity. My whole
purpose behind isolating <whal> was to give us a way to distinguish
between an individual Vulcan person <whal>, a group of more than 10
such people <whale>, and the whole of "Vulcandom" <whl'q'n>. The
latter would include not only the collected persons themselves, but
Vulcan culture and the space it inhabits -- originally, but not
exclusively, a planet with a variety of subculture-specific names.

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