[156] in tlhIngan-Hol
"nuqneH"
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:18:04 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Mark E. Shoulson <shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 14:12:13 EST
In-Reply-To: Captain Krankor's message of Wed, 29 Jan 92 18:01:20 -0500 <920129
Well, it looks like I've opened up an annoying conversation you seem to
have had before. Sorry.
I suppose it *is* overly literal to grumble about "nuqneH" being "what do
you want"; the brief analyses of how Klingons probably interact in
greetings have been interesting reading. Whatever. I'll go back to the
conventional "nuqneH".
Regarding my name, Kevin points out that Klingon is low on syllable-final
consonant clusters. Hmmm. Never noticed. Let me flip through my
dictionary.... There's the name "torgh" (p. 58), "bergh" (be irritable),
"burgh" (stomach), "chargh" (conquer), "chIrgh" (temple), "chorgh" (8), ...
several others, but admittedly few for the vocabulary. More interestingly,
a quick scan only shows up the "rgh" cluster as a (word-)final. The "r"
part makes sense, since the liquid "r" is easy to make clusters with
(wellllll, for English-speaking human mouthparts, anyway); odd that only
"gh" seems to be used as the second element. Likely this means little, but
who knows? There are, as has been pointed out, the common usages of "-ay'"
or "-aw'" or such. Kevin says that the glottal stop is only a pseudo
consonant (I'm not so sure), and that the "echo" syllable makes it a
syllable break (I'm unsure of this too). Still, glide-glottal is another
common source of clusters (if you want to call them that).
So use "mark"; the unKlingon spelling will flag it as foreign, and that's
that. Oops, there's already a "Mark" here. Oh, well....
~mark
