tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 27 05:30:38 2004

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RE: Klingon WOTD: jat (v)

Se'noj le'umaS ([email protected])



Holtej:
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 27, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   jat
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     speak incoherently, mumble
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT, p. 30.
>
>The Klingon Word Of The Day is brought to you by Holtej 
>([email protected]).  Please contact me with additions, corrections or 
>comments.

This is just my own theorizing, but I think that there might be a common 
root word in play here, if we look at jatlh, jat, and ja', all associated 
with speaking. A trick often used in the creation of artificial languages is 
designing the one it evolved from (or a very simplified model of it) to 
allow this sort of thing. Does anyone else have an info on this?

Se'noj

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