tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 17 10:50:00 1995
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pongwIj vIbuStaH
It's been a really slow day at work. So I started thinking about my name. I
could have chosen different variants.
raHel = the Hebrew pronunciation
reychel = the English pronunciation
But I wanted something different, but still close. I decided to work with a
Yiddish diminutive form of Rachel.
The problem I ran into was that there is no sound of 'u' as in put or rut. If
you put a glottal stop after a consonant, you get the sound 'u'.
So, if I were to try to spell out how I really wanted my name to sound it would
be <r'H'l>. But even I couldn't accept that. I really wanted the 'u' sound
after the 'r'. So I left the first <'> in and put in the 'oo' <u>.
If I was a person at Paramount, making up this name, I probably would of spelled
it as R'Hul. But since I was pushing it with the <'> I figured that should
stick with the small <r>. (Actually the more I look, the more my name seems like
a Vulcan name, yuck. What is it with ST and <'>s in names?)
See, there is a method to my madness.
r'Hul
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