tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 30 14:28:12 1995

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Re: Morphology



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 - On Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:18:41 -0800, "Christian Matzke" said:

  >> Speaking only for myself here, I pronounce them....  Qa-pla'
  >> puq-loD
  > I think the Qa-pla' pronunciation is common, as that is how it's
  > commonly said on Star Trek. Does anyone else want to comment or
  > have other examples of this (what is this called anyway?)?

I would pronounce it {Qap-la'}. The word {Qap} means "to succeed",
plus I would guess that the /pl/ at the beginning of a word would be
againt klingon phonetics (no words seem to contain /pl/).

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