tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 19 00:23:45 1996
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Re: chIagu
Consulat General de Pologne wrote:
>
> "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >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
>
> Sanskrit doesn't accept hiatus and avoids it either through elision of one
> of the vowels, or combining two similar vowels into one long vowel, or
> through combinning them into a diphtong, or into a cluster [semi-vowel +
> vowel], or ... (enough).
> Contrary to what you have written to Thiago it's just the contrary with
> Klingon. It accepts hiatus and always marks it with a special letter,
> namely {'}.
>
> You should have rather said: "Klingon doesn't accept smooth passage
> from one vowel to another and always demands a hiatus, i.e. a glottal stop."
>
> Let me quote from a dictionary: "Hiatus: a slight pause between two vowels
> that come together in successive syllables or words, such as
> between the e's in preeminent (<Latin: hiatus, gap)".
> Maybe you understand something else by this, but that's what I
> have learned about it - hiatus is a glottal stop.
>
> Qapla'
>
> macheq
>
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