[84297] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Tue Mar 25 18:15:55 2008
In-Reply-To: <47E930EB.6020106@trimboli.name>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:14:34 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:05 PM, David Trimboli wrote:
> I haven't figured out yet how to match final tlh or H followed by -oy
> without confusing the detection of initial tlh or H. Any
> suggestions on
> how to detect the -oy suffix instead of a word with oy in it?
qItbe'.
You can get very close by matching /VHoy/ (where V is any vowel),
but the existence of the verb {Hoy} gets in the way. {qaHoy} is
ambiguous -- is the {H} at the end of the syllable {qaH} or the
beginning of the syllable {Hoy}?
We know that {-oy} following a vowel-final syllable is potentially
problematic in the standard dialect, and an extra consonant (perhaps
{'}) might get inserted. I suspect that dropping {H} at the end of a
syllable which is followed by {-oy} would result in the same sort of
thing. So my advice is not to worry about it, and just let your
other replacement rules do their thing. I think {qahoy} is a
perfectly appropriate Morskan pronunciation for whichever meaning of
{qaHoy} is intended.
