Tau'ri star

kelsi

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Here's something I was sent which I thought was interesting, and might have *influenced* the producers:

copyright of.... I dunno, whoever wrote it ... wasn't me!

"T Tauri star ...

any of a class of very young stars having a mass approximately equal to that of the Sun.

So called after a prototype identified in a bright region of gas and dust known as the Hind's variable nebula, the T Tauri stars are characterized by erratic changes in brightness.

They represent an early stage in stellar evolution, having only recently been formed by the rapid gravitational condensation of interstellar gas and dust.

These young stars are relatively unstable, though contracting more slowly than before, and will remain in that condition until their interior temperatures become high enough to support thermonuclear reactions for energy generation. More than 500 T Tauri stars have so far been observed. The Sun is thought to have gone through the T Tauri stage in its early youth."

Any thoughts?
 
Thoughts

I vote coincidence. Sol is no where near this stellar class, being a class G2V [to be picky] active star and the 'T Tauri' class being only a step beyond a stellar gas cloud. They're densities are much lower than the class G.

I'll go with the 'made up language' format, but I could be far off the track. The whole 'Tau'ri' and 'Tok'ra' thing tends to suggest some prior thought as to some language form.

But, seeing how off the wall have been some of the 'alien languages' I've pulled out of my head for stories or the 'Abydonian dictionary' I've been playing with [a specific format for modifing Coptic Egyptian], I won't lay any money out on it.

It's not like I haven't been wrong before. this should be a great topic for debate here. :p
 
i heard of "tau'ri" before, as some kind of stellar, astrophysics thing. when i heard teal'c say it, i thought "tau'ri".... yes.
 
Re: Thoughts

Originally posted by Rowan
But, seeing how off the wall have been some of the 'alien languages' I've pulled out of my head for stories or the 'Abydonian dictionary' I've been playing with [a specific format for modifing Coptic Egyptian],
Please explain! Sounds interesting.
 
'language creation'

I was looking for something consistant I could use for dialoge with Abydonian conversations, etc. I researched Coptic Egyptain [the oldest know still verbal form] and noticed that some of the syntax seemed very familiar to the sentence construction of Pennsylvania Dutch or Irish ['Go out the door.' is 'Door, out go.'].

So... I basically mated the two forms. I'm coming up with a 'spoken language' that 'feels' and 'sounds' Egyptain with just enough difference to sound alien. Most of the middle eastern languages [Hebrew, Aramaric, etc] are spoken in a tight, clipped sort of way. Where an English speaker might say 'It was a lovely afternoon for a brisk walk.', in Hebrew, it tends to come across as 'A nice day to walk briskly.' I'm working at capturing that clipped feeling, while retaining the Egyptian feel, but byt changing the syntax, giving it an unworldly feel.

Not too unsimilar to the folks who invented Klingon. ;)
 
hmm, sounds interesting. I was never one to be able to learn other languages or understand them. Glad you sound like you know what's going on...oh & hi Rowan haven't been posting in the same circle as you for some time...
 
Wow! Rowan, are you like completely fluent in Ancient Egyptian or Hebrew or something? You must know the languages very well..
 

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