tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 17 08:44:20 1999
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RE: qep'a' pa' qoch vInej
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: qep'a' pa' qoch vInej
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:41:47 -0600
At 05:12 PM 2/16/99 -0800, pagh wrote:
>jatlh peHruS:
>
><< Don't we have the phrase /cha'vatlh ben HIq/ from canon somewher >>
>
>> I believe we do have such a phrase. All numbers over ten (-maH)
>> have spaces in them. Perhaps there is no consistency.
>
>This would be a good time to point out that the writing system we use is NOT
>pIqaD. It is a way for non-Klingon linguists to record spoken Klingon. Since
>we have no idea what "real" pIqaD is, we don't how it marks word boundaries,
>if it does at all. As such, this debate is rather pointless - <cha'ben> and
><cha' ben> *sound* exactly the same.
>
nuqjatlh? You seem to be responding to a different thread. I wasn't saying
anything about pIqaD. I simply commented that I thought we had written
(romanized, if you insist) canon for the phrase /cha' ben/.
FWIW, /cha'ben/ and /cha' ben/ don't sound identical to me. I hear only one
accented syllable in /cha'ben/, and I hear two accents in /cha' ben/.
-- ter'eS