tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 17 06:41:48 1997
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Re: [KLBC] wo' mung
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: [KLBC] wo' mung
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 97 09:35:02 EST
mujang Qov:
>}>3. Letters are not dropped if doubled, or if hard to say next to one
>}>another. {chaw'} + {'egh} = {chaw''egh} NOT {*chaw'egh}. (Nitpickers
>}>can think of one exception to this rule, but let's not confuse the
>}>issue).
>}
>}Awww, can't we confuse it just a little? Please? ;-)
>
>bIqoy'mo' vIchaw'. yImISmoH.
qatlho'neS. qarlu'chu' 'e' vIqap.
After all, accuracy *is* one of the core Klingon values (from PK). :-)
Sometimes we see in the dictionary an apparent compound noun made from
the name of a planet or region plus the word {ngan} "inhabitant".
When the name ends with the letter {n}, it looks like it gets dropped.
For example:
{vulqan} "Vulcan (planet)", {vulqangan} "Vulcan (person)"
{'orghen} "Organia", {'orghengan} "Organian".
But, as Qov said before she listed what she called "empirical parsing
rules" for syllables, this is *not* really a "rule". It is merely an
observation. (Even if we had more than a couple of examples of this,
and no counterexamples, we still couldn't reliably apply it backwards
to infer that {verengan} "Ferengi" means that Ferenginar, the Ferengi
homeworld, is called {veren} in Klingon.)
-- ghunchu'wI'