tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 16 20:27:38 1998
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Re: qaD chu'
ja' Qermaq:
>A quick count of all the 3-letter palindromes in my compiled dictionary
>shows that 61 of the possible 105 letter combinations are defined at least
>once.
Don't forget, {wow} and {wuw} are illegal. TKD page 17: "No words in
Klingon have {ow} or {uw}." So there are actually only 103 possible
3-letter palindromes.
I got 51 of them without spending too much time on it, and missed twelve.
[Actually, I got 52, but one of them wasn't really a word. I need to go
back and work on my {-w'}s.] Most of the ones I didn't get probably would
have come to me eventually.
But that's 63 total; someone's count is off.
>To be fair - her's how many per consonant.
>
>b - 0 ch - 4 D - 2 gh - 4 H - 4
>j - 4 l - 2 m - 3 n - 4 ng - 2
>p - 4 q - 3 Q - 3 r - 3 S - 5 t - 3
>tlh - 3 v - 2 w - 1 y - 2 ' - 3
That adds up to 61, but your count differs from mine on some letters.
My word list says {q} and {'} each have 4, not 3.
That was a fun exercise. I would certainly have recognized all but one
of the words I missed had I seen them in context; now I'll remember that
one too.
-- ghunchu'wI'