[1671] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: opinions on Orthography & Phonetics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 13 18:07:44 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 17:17:12 EDT
> Well, there *are* languages with both t and D (e.g. Sanskrit and its
> relations); the only thing weird about the Klingon is not that they're both
> there but that the "missing" ones (T and d) are missing.
Just for posterity's sake, I knew this. I was just trying to keep the
original post short. Okrand said at Stellarcon 17 that having (t and D) in
the same language instead of (T and D) inclusive-or (t and d) was highly
unusual in human languages and made pronunciation of certain consonant
combinations difficult. I thought it would be enough to simply refer to (t
and D), but I guess I forgot who I was talking to...
-- charghwI'
