tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 03 16:31:20 1996
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Re: Big Enterprise
On Wed, 3 Jul 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> putting the 'a' at the end of a word does make it a question. So the
> captain could have said, "The Enterprise?" Just as he might have said
> "The Enterprise---."
>
How is {enterpray'} spelled? Is there a glottal stop at the end? I
reread TKD 16 and it says that when a speaker is surprised, often there
is an echo after a {'}. Perhaps then the translation "Enterprise?" was
more of a "Enterprise?!" That is, a question of surprise rather than of
interrogation. If there is no glottal stop, then perhaps a surprised
Klingon adds a glottal stop AND an echo...
just speculating...
dave yeung