[84294] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Mar 25 15:37:26 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:34:37 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <2263ACB1-A560-4C3F-B9BC-7F0FAC73AB5D@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Doq wrote:
> We spell according to pronunciation, not meaning.
>
> In other words, are you sure that a final H followed by {-oy} would be
> pronounced like a final H?
>
> We know that {-oy} is weird in ta' Hol. Might it also be weird in
> Morskan in ways we haven't yet imagined?
I'm only interested in reproducing what's in the book, and that doesn't
give any special case for -oy. I'd rather work out the logic than
hand-wave the problem away.
I'd rather end up with {ha' DI ba oy} instead of {ha' DI ba hoy}.
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