Re: Vulcan names
Sorik of Vulcan 
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:51:36 PDT

>Rob Z. says...
>So, I think that would keep the language reformers after Surak's time 
>from retaining any of those forms. I think that any new names after
>Surak's time would not have an specific gender to them. At least not
>necessarily. So Tuvok could work perfectly well as a female name just
>as Saavik does.

Now Sorik says...

Most "T" names have a glottal catch, do they not? So we could say that 
those that do are female, and those that do not are probably male.
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>I propose that the selection of names we have do not display any
>universal or planet wide naming conventions. Perhaps local, or perhaps
>only coincidental due to the small sample of names we have to work 
with. 
>For example, on the surface there seems to be some femanine or 
masculine 
>names. We have Spock and T'Pau, Sarek, Surak and T'Lar, and T'Pring.
>
>But we also have Saavik, Valeris, and Salek all female, none of whom 
>follow the seeming T'- female name rule. So certainly there is no
>absolute T' rule for female names - otherwise we would see no 
exceptions.

Correct.  I don't think things like names, one of the most flexible 
aspects of language and Culture, should have "absolute" rules at all.  
There is of course a generally excepted pattern.

I suggest that we consider the <S> and five letter rule for males, and 
<T> and glottal catch rule for the females a Shikahr area thing, or 
perhaps that entire contenent.(The reason I say Shikahr is because 
Sarek, Spock, Sybock, T'Pring, T'Pau are all from that area.)  The 
others such as Veleris, Vorik, Tovok, Selar, can just be of different 
cultural and national backgrounds.  After all, there are different 
religions on Vulcan. (I believe this is mentioned in Vulcan's Glory or 
TVAM).  This would work great with Tuvok because of his different color.  
It can be assumed that the darker Vulcans come from a place that is 
"hot" even by Vulcan standards.  

HISTORICAL NOTE:

After the "Awakening", there was an adaption of the naming trends 
attributed to Shikahr.  Some however decided to keep their "roots" and 
keep their vernacular names intact.  There are ocasionally some who 
chose to create names which show a defiance from what Vulcan calls 
"normal".

Some ideas.

Sorik
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