tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 03 14:46:00 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: bolwI' (noun)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: bolwI' (noun)
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 07:44:41 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Andrey, ja':
>Especially this one. I can't tell the difference and I don't know if
>this words uses "i"(capital) or "l" and how I should pronounce it.
The extremely limited form of Klingon syllables should make the reading of
such words easy. Syllables can only be CV(C), Caw', Cew', CIw', CVy' or
CVrgh, and vowels may not appear adjacent to one another; if you know this,
then reading {bolwI'} with two capital I's makes the word illegal (it would
become CVVCVC in this case), as it does when reading it with two small L's
(it would become CVCCCC in this case). {bolwI'} (B, O, L, W, capital I,
apostrophe) is the only reading that produces a legal Klingon word.
>By the way what is the Swedish definition there for?
IIRC there is a large Klingon-speaking contingent in Sweden. maHvatlh has
translated the definitions of TKD into Swedish, and I assume these
definitions are from him.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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