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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'a (conj)

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: 'a (conj)
• Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:23:32 +0200

Am 19.09.2003 16:54:57, schrieb Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:

>Okrand comments that, "This word [{'ach}] is sometimes shortened to {'a}" 
>(TKD 55) but doesn't explain why.  (I wonder:  Could this be another one of 
>those upper-class variations?  Azetbur is about as refined and upper-class 
>as you get on Kronos.)

I've been wondering about this also for a long time, and then I decided for myself that I'll adapt it to 
the following word, as many other 
languages do:

I use {'a} when the next word starts with {ch}, {S}, {tlh} or similar, because it's difficult to say 
{'ach chuch...}. It's easier to say {'a 
chuch...}

Of course, this is not a canon rule, but it makes sense.
As long as we don't know more about it, I'll continue to do so, since they seem to be interchangable.

Quvar.

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