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RE: News from Maltz

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jul 29 10:17:39 2009

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:16:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: <cc6.54cb2dc6.37a1b02a@wmconnect.com>
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lay'tel SIvten:
>Why again is the apostrophe <qaghwI'> and not <'ay>?

ghunchu'wI' wrote Monday:
>> The glottal stop sound is an exception, being called {qaghwI'},
>> though this longish name is often eschewed in favor of a simple
>> grunt of the sound itself.

This derives from {qagh} "interrupt".


 
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Voragh                          
Canon Master of the Klingons




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