tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 06 18:01:02 1996
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 744
Thus spake you, [email protected]:
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:03:38 -0500
> From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RE: KLBC: Two quick questions
> Message-ID: <v01520d01aea6e32c2e50@[205.139.170.201]>
> ghItlh charghwI':
> >> What is the proper spelling of the word for "expensive", {wagh} or {waH}?
> >If anyone finds that the New Words list is definitely misspelled
> >on this, definitely let me know directly. I think this is one of
> >those words that we have never seen spelled.
> *I* heard {waH}.
Er, I heard wagh, and quite distinctively at that. (wagh is also what I've
been using consistently in my work.) I hope this won't be settled by
plebiscite! :-)
nIchyon jIH, 'ej DaHjaj 'ughHa' qamDu'wIj jIyIttaHvIS, Armin Shimernan naD
vIlaDpu'mo'.
--
http://daemon.apana.org.au/~opoudjis NICK NICHOLAS; LINGUISTICS,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE [email protected]
"Some of the English might say that the Irish orthography is very Irish.
Personally, I have a lot of respect for a people who can create something
so grotesque." -- Andrew Rosta