tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 13 13:22:57 2000
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How many identical phonemes in a row?
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- Subject: How many identical phonemes in a row?
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:22:22 -0500 (EST)
Someone's probably done this before, but I was looking at the
suffix <-Daq> and I came up with this sentence:
<QongDaqDaq Daq DaqwI'>
which has four <Daq>s in a row. Are there other examples of 4 (or
more) identical phonemes (I think that's what they're called) in a
row, or is this the only one? I was looking at the other suffixes
and <lI'> looks like a possible candidate:
<HablI' lI' lI'lI'>
which is supposed to mean, "the purposeful act of sending information
to the useful transmission device is in progress", but I don't know
what the object of <lI'> "transmit" is. I was also hoping to be
able to tack a <-lI'> "your (for being capable of language)" on
<HablI'>. Can this be done if the <HablI'> in question is, say,
Mr. Data (i.e. an android)? I also wanted to tack a <-lI'> "in
progress" to <lI'> "be useful", i.e. if Mr. Data will soon be
useless after he has received the transmission. But TKD 4.4 says
that such a verb can have no suffix other than <-qu'>.
ta' ta'ta'. (clipped)
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