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Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb)
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:22:56 EDT
In a message dated 4/9/2006 11:10:40 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> y and ' are just like in english. They *CAN* act as vowels, but strictly
> are consonents.
No, they can't act as vowels. There is no Klingon word like {Syb} or {m'q}
or {Hwch}, where the only sound following the initial consonant is {'}, {w}, or
{y}, possibly followed by an additional consonant.
You replaced {w} with {'} above, but the argument is the same. {'} is very
*different* from English, where it has no sound, and it is always a consonant
in Klingon.
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