Re: Blocky Vulcan Writing Sorik of Vulcan Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:24:35 PDT >So we could interprate the use of the writing like this: > >http://home,unicom,net/~lalaith/startrek/vulcan/vulc_lang/vulcblocks,jpg Or perhaps some kind of Vulcan kanji? Just a thought. >The remaining four letters could be used to create a word meaning the >Vulcan equivalent to: "U,S,S", or "Shuttle", or "small space vessel". > >I don't know what dialect such a word would come from, could be the >modern tongue, could be OHV, or it could be from a tongue spoken around >ShiKahr (Spock's likely departure point). > >Mark, can you tell us the OHV word(s) for "shuttle" and "small space >vessel"? I don't understand where the OHV comes from. When and how did we discover (create) Old High Vulcan? I also have an (hopefully) interesting analysis of the utterances in TMP for you to consider. But that is a latter posting. --Sorik > email at surak_1*hotmail,com http://www,geocities,com/Athens/Olympus/9087/index,html > "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation." > -Pearl S. Buck > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www,hotmail,com