tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 25 21:45:02 1999
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Re: Stress in Klingon
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Stress in Klingon
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 00:51:14 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 19:48:21 -0500 (EST) [email protected]
wrote:
>
> > 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).
This is not a Klingon name. It is a Klingon transliteration of
an English name. We similarly pronounce foreign names with
sounds that violate English phonology. Bwana.
> --
> De'vID
charghwI'