tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 12 10:30:59 1999
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Re: phonology
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>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:18:31 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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>jIjegh.
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>Two Marks have convinced me that differing phonological
>descriptive systems can describe the same language with equal
>accuracy. I guess that when I read the first issue of HolQeD
>(being one of about a dozen people to get the first issue when
>it was originally published), I was so impressed by that article
>on Klingon phonology that I got stubbornly attached to it.
>
>jIDochpu'. jIDoghpu'. SatlhIj!
You weren't THAT bad...
>It was the observation of the absence of {-Iy'} in the language
>that got me. I realized that I was dealing with someone who has
>been paying closer attention to these sounds than I have.
I remember once not even being sure of -Irgh; I think until fairly recently
only {chIrgh} had it. And even now I'm finding only {SIrgh} to swell the
ranks.
~mark