Re: Blocky Vulcan Writing
Rob Zook 
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:25:53 -0500

At 06:24 PM 9/18/98 PDT, Sorik of Vulcan wrote:
>
>>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.

Look back in the archive a few days and you'll see were discussion the
various _canon_ lettering styles. Trying to figure out how to use them.
There are quite a few, more than I at least had realized.


>>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?

We (meaning most of the members of vulcan-linguistics), did not
discover (create) Old High Vulcan. Mark Gardner and his group did, see
his groups web page at: http://www,teleport,com/~vli/ for more details.



>I also have an (hopefully) interesting analysis of the utterances in TMP 
>for you to consider.  But that is a latter posting.

Synchronistically enough, the VLI web page has some interesting things
to say about that as well.



Rob Z.