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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: boqrat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Thu Jun 25 10:18:35 2015
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:18:14 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
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Am 25.06.2015 um 15:11 schrieb lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
> If this were transliterated as bo-krat, it probably would have been {boQat} instead of {boqrat},
Yes, that's true. My example was just to show that it may be something
else than bok+rat, not a pronunciation guide.
One must remember that the english spelling was there first, and boq-rat
simply follows bok-rat.
I just look closer at the script, which I should have doen earlier. The
word is spelled with an hyphen, so the bok-rat ist most probably a
"rat"-like animal. So on the other side (from a production view) the
klingon word is a bad transliteration. I guess Okrand din't know what
the animal was, because otherwise I may have said something like {boq
Qa'}... :-)
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Lieven L. Litaer
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