Re: Stress in Klingon

[devid@startrekmail.com]

> We also have a new (or old?) one to add to the list from Okrand's Klingon
> notes for the movie ST5, which have just been published by Lawrence in
> HolQeD (v.8, no.4: Dec. 1999):
>
>   jems tIy qIrq       James T. Kirk

Doesn't this violate some rules of Klingon phonology?  From 
looking at the other names I'd have expected <jemIs> and <qIrqa'>
(or something like that).

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De'vID



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