tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 02 11:11:23 1997
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Re: ' between vowels
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ' between vowels
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 10:55:32 -0800 (PST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Andrew 'Ska' Netherton" at Jan 2, 97 10:09:34 am
> On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, jatlh Donald E. Vick :
>
> > My name there is taDI'oS, just as in my sig. Page me.
>
> I haven't seen this before in regular, day-to-day tlhIgnan Hol, so
> I'm thinking that this isn't a regular use of its structure, but how would
> I pronounce <taDI'oS>? Would I look at it as <ta-DI'-oS> or <ta-DI-'oS>?
> If I'm not mistaken, the two *would* sound different.
Well, it's more regular than having two nouns in a row. This is a
simple vowel-consonant-vowel sequence. It's not very common, true, but
it's not unheard of. The only root I can think of offhand is <jabbI'ID>,
but any word ending in vowel-' followed by the -wI' suffix is about the
same as having it between two vowels.
>
> For the record taDI'oS, how do *you* say it?
I don't usually. I just type it. I guess it would be <ta-DI-'oS>
though, that seems easier to say.
taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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