tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 17 17:07:55 1996
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Re: <K'>vaD ghItlhlu''a'?
>Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:13:02 -0800
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>
>On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 06:36:37 -0800 "Mark E. Shoulson"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>I really like your voobles and Kronstints. It makes a good
>point. Meanwhile, I'd like to point out the one and only
>exception to your rules that I've found in an Okrandian
>canonical source:
>
>janluq pIqarD HoD -- as noted in: HolQeD v5n3p15
> ^^
I think I even mentioned proper names as a possible source of exceptions.
Note that "Rwanda" and "Mfume" and "Mbutu" have illegal initials in
English, but we transliterate them that way anyway.
>Needless to say, this is an odd case of transliterating a Fed
>Standard proper name, but it is the one case in which Okrand
>made this exception. I mean he even used {'entepray'} to avoid
>an alien kronstint cluster at the end of a syllable, yet
>John-Luc gets special treatment.
It's a rare language that's consistent.
~mark