tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 15 11:47:42 1996
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Re: chIyaghu
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chIyaghu
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:47:21 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (messagefrom Jeremy Cowan on Sun, 14 Apr 1996 20:37:09 -0700)
>Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 20:37:09 -0700
>From: Jeremy Cowan <[email protected]>
>On Sun, 14 Apr 1996 [email protected] wrote:
>> I was pondering the possibilities for a klingon name
>> My name is Thiago.
>> Anyway here are a few ideas:
>> chIaghu
>> chI'aghu'
>> chI'aghu
>My suggestion is (as in the subject line) chIyaghu. I have made a couple
>of assumptions in recommending this. First is that the "i" in your name
>is pronounced as would be the English "ee".
Whichever you choose, don't choose "*chIaghu". The vowel-hiatus in midword
(between I and a) is unattested in Klingon, and indeed is almost certainly
forbidden (Okrand says that an epenthetic ' is "suspected" of being
inserted to prevent it in the case of -oy added to nouns ending in vowels).
~mark