tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 03 06:26:40 1996

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RE: KLBC - Trick or Treat


> >                                                 aDam' (like adam???)
>
> Just so you know, you can't have a {'} after a constonant and not 
preceding
> a vowel. All syllables in Klingon are constonant-vowel-constonant 
excluding
> sound pairs like {rgh}. Try just aDam maybe.

Well, that's not quite accurate.  As charghwI' wrote in May of 1995 (and 
quoted in the FAQ, section 2.2), Klingon syllables are mostly CVC 
(Consonant Vowel Consonant).  Sometimes they drop the final C, making them 
CV.  And in a few cases, they may be CVCC, but only if the last two 
consonants are /rgh/, /w'/, or /y'/.

So, even your corrected */aDam/ is not quite consistent with Klingon 
phonology, because it starts with a Vowel, which Klingon syllables cannot. 
 The next best guess is /'aDam/, but it's really up to Adam.

See the FAQ on choosing a name, 
 http://www.thomtech.com/~dspeers/faq.htm#2.2

> -Adrian K (aka HoS'a'wI')

--Holtej

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