tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 03 03:42:49 1994
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Re: Scrabble Letter Frequencies
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Scrabble Letter Frequencies
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 94 15:38:57 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Susan Farmer" at Aug 3, 94 12:28 pm
According to Susan Farmer:
> >From: Mark Reed <[email protected]>
> >
> <long post and other phenomes deleted>
>
> >rgh 36 ( 0.18%)
> >
>
> I must have missed something somewhere. Why is "rgh" treated as a single
> phenome like "tlh" and "gh"?
>
> Susan
I personally think it shouldn't be for the same reason you
don't have an English Scrabble tile with "QU" on it. Just
because the letters appear next to each other a lot doesn't
mean that they should be on one tile.
The argument is that {rgh} is the only consonant cluster that
occurs within a single syllable in Klingon. You get other
consonant pairs BETWEEN syllables all the time, but except for
{rgh}, {y'} and {w'}, you don't get the potential for THREE
consonants TOGETHER. Note that any argument that applies to
{rgh} should also be applied to {w'} and {y'}.
Besides the oddity that he picked out one of these and not the
other two, it seems to be a bad idea altogether.
charghwI'