tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 17 00:55:10 1997
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Re: [KLBC] wo' mung
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [KLBC] wo' mung
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:54:51 -0800
At 21:25 97-12-16 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}ja' Qov:
}
}>Let me see if I can articulate some parsing rules. These are purely
}>empirical.
}>
}>1. Every syllable begins with exactly one consonant followed by a
}>vowel. (Sounds like {gh} {tlh} {ch} count as one consonant each.)
}>This means that a syllable never begins with two or more
}>consonants and never begins with a vowel.
}
}I know how you hate nitpicking, Qov, but I think it's worth pointing
}out the one syllable we know of that *does* start with a vowel: the
}noun suffix {-oy} (TKD page 174).
Grin. I think {-oy} was in my original message, along with the exception
for the no dropping doubles, but I edited it out. (Yes, if you think what I
do post is long, you hould see the culls).
}>2. The only pairs of consonants that occur at the end of syllables
}>are {rgh} {y'} and {w'}.
}>
}>3. Letters are not dropped if doubled, or if hard to say next to one
}>another. {chaw'} + {'egh} = {chaw''egh} NOT {*chaw'egh}. (Nitpickers
}>can think of one exception to this rule, but let's not confuse the
}>issue).
}
}Awww, can't we confuse it just a little? Please? ;-)
bIqoy'mo' vIchaw'. yImISmoH.
}>(Note that {'} is a consonant and {y} and {w} count as a consonant,
}>for the purpose of the above rules.)
}
}These certainly count as consonants -- because that's how they're
}defined in TKD. :-)
vooblemey kronstintmey DalIjpu''a'?
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian