tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 03 08:31:50 2004
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Re: MOST terminology
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:06:14 -0500, Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> There's also the rather less tractable problem of a nearly full
> matrix of potential words -- it's highly likely that a misspelling
> of any given word will result in another perfectly good word.
*nods* I did some analysis once on a wordlist I had and found that, of
all one-syllable words that are possible given Klingon's phontactics,
57% are known words (if you don't count words ending in a vowel, since
those are rarer). That's pretty well-filled.
(Even if you count vowel-final words, 56% of all possible syllables are
real monosyllabic words.)
Incidentally, I also had a look to see whether all possible
onset-nucleus and nucleus-coda pairs occurred in real words and found
that they all do, except for the nucleus-code pairs {ew'} {Iw'} and
{Iy'}. (If someone knows words which have syllables ending like that,
especially one-syllable words, please let me know.)
Philip
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