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/).
DaH rIn jabbI'ID
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