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A Thing That Has Bothered Me For Some Time Now

Why doesn't Worf's name follow Klingon phonology?
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[identity profile] madripoor-rose.livejournal.com 2013-07-14 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hm.

The Thing in the Empire we don't talk about, from the Tribbles redux episode? Changed things from the K naming conventions?

Or he was an orphan and only knew part of his name and there were no records?

Been too long since I watched Trek.
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[personal profile] beccastareyes 2013-07-14 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Worf anglicized* his name because he spent most of his childhood among humans?

* Russianized? I don't know what language Worf's adopted parents spoke, only that they had Russian accents. Wikipedia informs me that Worf lived both on a Federation colony as well as Earth with his adopted family.
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[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2013-07-14 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Probably. I'm just dying to know what it is in the original Klingon ...

[identity profile] cjtremlett.livejournal.com 2013-07-14 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Something to do with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, I think.

Because Whorf-Worf jokes never get old!

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2013-07-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hee hee! That was one of my theories, too.
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