tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 19 11:26:31 1997
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Re: my name
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: my name
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:25:05 -0500
At 11:06 PM 9/18/97 -0700, peHruS wrote:
>In a message dated 97-09-11 13:23:21 EDT, Lieven writes:
>
><< Deghmey -v- -r- je jatlhlaHbe' *german*ngan .
> >>
>
>Although {Deghmey} is a good way of expressing "symbols", I have seen many on
>this listserv use {chovnatlh} for "letter of an alphabet". Just throwing
>this your way.
>
Since muHwI' is actually talking about phonemes (if Germans can't pronounce
-v- and -r-, presumably they can recognize and reproduce the symbols),
maybe {QIch} would be better still in this instance.
-- ter'eS
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