tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 03 06:01:08 1996
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Re: KLBC
- From: Krenath <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 09:01:05 -0400
>>'a' be' che' De' 'e' ghe' He' 'I' je' le' me' ne' nge'
>> 'o' pe' qa' Qe' re' Se' te' tlhe' 'u' ve' we' ye' ' (?)
>
>Why "qa'" and not "qe'"?
>
>~mark
Well, As I was typing the above, I thought that perhaps, for some speakers,
the difference between badly mispronounced Q and q would possibly warrant
altering the vowel sound so as to make the difference clearer.
I also considered running through the dictionary and checking to be sure
that as few of the letter-names above as possible happened to spell out
existing Klingon words. Since I left my dictionary at work, my own
vocabulary was not up to par.
'a' interrogative, augmentative
be' female, woman
che' rule, reign
De' data, information
'e' that
He' smell, emit odor
je' buy, purchase / feed (someone else)
le' be special, exceptional
ne' yeoman
nge' take away
'o' aft
pe' cut
qa' spirit
Qe' restaurant
Se' radio frequency
tlhe' turn
'u' universe
Of the vowels, only 'I' was not a word. Every combination of vowels (at
least those ending in glottal stops) with H, l, and p formed words. The
following did not appear to be words and would possibly make better choices
for letter-names.
bo'/bu' chI' DI' 'I' jI'/ju' na'/nu' nga'/ngI' qe' Qu' SI' tlhI'
Obviously, the format CV' (consonant-vowel-glottal stop) is not necessarily
the only choice. I assumed that it would be a fairly natural one, however.
Not being a linguist, I may easily be in error.
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