tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 08 20:01:12 1999
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Re: Vowels
>Date: Fri, 06 Aug 99 18:01:43 EST
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>
>Otherwise, consonants only meet one another at the union points
>of pairs of syllables.
>
>This is far more regular than in most languages. The only single
>exception to these rules so far is the transliteration of the
>name "John Luc Picard", which comes out {jan luq pIqarD}.
>Apparently, Klingons consider him to be significant enough to be
>worthy of care in accurately pronouncing his name.
Or they just felt like being accurate for accuracy's sake. English doesn't
start syllables with "mf-", but English-language newspapers obligingly have
Kweisi Mfume's name spelled correctly.
~mark