tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 25 15:29:19 2008
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Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Doq wrote:
> Maybe we are asking the wrong question. Yes, we know that {-oy} is a
> special suffix that can confuse meaning in words like {jIloy}, which
> can be either mean "dear neighbor" or "I guess".
>
> Meanwhile, these two very different words (a prefixed verb or a
> suffixed noun) are pronounced identically, and the dialect affects
> pronunciation, not meaning.
jIQoch. pIm mu'meyvam QIch, vIjatlhDI' jIH.
When I speak them, the {l} sounds in these two words are not the
same. {jI-loy} has a "clear l" as in "light", and {jIl-oy} has a
"dark l" as in "tile".
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