tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 15 18:40:11 1995
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Re: Klingon babes(?)
On Mon, 15 May 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 01:02:54 -0400
> >From: [email protected] (Bryan Fields)
> >>I'd think it would be more like {ghIlqa'}. There is no <G> in
> >>the Klingon alphabet currently and a glottal stop would never
> >>happen between two consonants. [for what it's worth].
>
> >It's been a while and I wrote before I thought. HIvqa' veqlargh.
> >But . . there was _definitly_ and <r> in there. How about {ghrIlqa'}?
>
> Unlikely; Klingon never begins a word with a consonant cluster. Since when
> do the Paramount actors or writers know how to pronounce or produce Klingon
> though? And after all, we have "Qugh" -> Kruge; the "gh" sound is
> certainly quite rhotic. I could easily believe ghIlqa' got pronounced
> Grilka. Assuming, of course, that the writers even thought about it, which
> is very unlikely.
An example of the Klingon sound {gh} being rendered as "gr" is the word
{ghe''or}, which in Federation Standard is spelled "Gre'thor". (The
word "Gre'thor" has appeared in "Star Trek", the Official Magazine and in
The ST Encyclopedia).
Using this example, I would also spell "Grilka" as something like {ghIlqa'}.
> >>> yIHmey SurghwI'
> ~mark
yoDtargh