[84302] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon phonology in regular expressions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Wed Mar 26 13:22:23 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:00:29 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@mail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <47E953CD.4010202@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
The question is, what does "initial" and "final" mean in this context?
Imagine a hypothetical dialect that lets us play with the {jIloy}
example. Say it turns final -l into -lh (sounds like tlh without the
t) and initial l into R (which sounds like an English R, vs lowercase
r which sounds the same as in ta' Hol).
Then the word for "neighbor" would be {jIlh} and the word for "guess"
would be {Roy}.
So what happens to ta' Hol {jIloy}? Would it be {jIRoy} when it means
"I guess" and {jIlhoy} when it means "dear neighbor"? That seems to
be what David's postulating; does that match the descriptions (and
onscreen examples) of the Morskan and other dialects?
It seems to me that -l- is neither initial nor final but medial,
which means it would not affected by either rule, but would stay
{jIloy}...
