<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);"><span style="display: inline;">Given that the Klingon language is perhaps oriented to Star Trek stories, I wondered whether the Klingon language would be able to express things such as colours.</span><br></p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">For example, please consider the poem that I wrote that is featured on page 1 of the following thread.</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);"><a href="https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent;cursor: pointer;outline: 0.0px;color: rgb(0,0,0);" target="_blank">https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/</a></p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">An internet search gave the following web page.</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);"><a href="http://klingonska.org/ref/color.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent;cursor: pointer;outline: 0.0px;color: rgb(0,0,0);" target="_blank">http://klingonska.org/ref/color.html</a></p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">Now in that page is the following,</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;"></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">> The color violet, or purple, is not actually a Klingon color. Klingon for the Galactic Traveler has the following to say on the subject: “The fact that neither SuD nor Doq includes what is called ‘violet’ or ‘purple’ in Federation Standard may be related to Klingon physiology—that is, exactly how the Klingon eye processes different wavelengths of light.”</span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);"><br>I do not know what the science fiction details of that are, but whatever, it would seem that if, in a science fiction story, a Klingon stood on earth and saw a rainbow, then it would not appear how some of us see a rainbow. Which raises the question of how does a rainbow look to a human who has colour vision disability?</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">So I got to thinking, if there were an alien race where the people could see colours as many humans see them but also could see colours of electromagnetic radiation beyond the visible spectrum of humans, such people might see a rainbow as wider and perhaps more beautiful, or maybe with edge colours that seemed awful. How could a poem about a rainbow and its colours written by one of those people be translated into a language now in use on earth?</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">Can the poem that I wrote be translated into Klingon, with the season of the year and the colours of the rainbow?</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">Is there any Klingon poetry that expresses colours?</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">A helpful gentleman informed me of the following link to a video about colour and languages.</p><p style="line-height: 24.0px;margin-bottom: 15.0px;background-color: rgb(248,248,248);">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtnD4jmCDQ<br></p><div>William</div><p><br></p></div> </body></html>