tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 23 14:15:39 2003
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Re: KLBC: tlhingan Hol vIghojmeH Sajatlh
But not yet in the Wiki page of puns in tlhIngan Hol! Someone needs to
add the finger-puns (I don't remember the details).
/wiki/index.php?Puns%20in%20the%20Vocabulary%20of%20tlhIngan%20Hol
The Wiki's there for a reason; go populate it.
~mark
[email protected] wrote:
>>Judging on what I have seen of some recent Klingon words, it would seem that
>>the most neutral vowel in Klingon is probably /I/, as you suggest. The
>>borrowings/puns from English that have been proposed for the following
>>words seem to back this up:
>>
>>DIron: from English "drone".
>>ghIlaSnoS: from English/Russian "glasnost".
>>vIlInHoD: from English "Captain Flint".
>>
>>Wherever an English initial consonant cluster occurs, it seems to usually be
>>separated by /I/ in its Klingon form. Can anyone else think of more
>>examples of this occurrence?
>>
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>SIq
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>(This is in the New Words list)
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>DloraH
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