[89614] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: 'oghwI' lut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh)
Mon Sep 12 12:18:22 2011
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:12:56 +1000
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ghItlhpu' naHQun, jatlh:
> So I guess that brings us back to *orayangan.
> We'll need to adjust this a bit to fit the CVC system.
> Currently we have o-ray-a-ngan.
> The simple solution would be 'o-ray-'a-ngan.
It constantly surprises me that people so often want to fill up the gaps in
loans of this sort with glottal stops. I don't mean to criticise you in that;
a lot of people do it.
But Klingon is perfectly happy with CV syllables and seems to be doubly so in
names, both native and borrowed (romuluS, verengan, lIgho(n)ngan, DuraS, mara,
tlha'a, be'etor...). Unless there's a good reason, like maintaining stress -
cf. be'taSeD "Betazed" from the Monopoly board - the simplest solution for
*orayangan would be to just add an initial qaghwI': 'o-ra-ya-ngan. If another
qaghwI' appeared anywhere I'd expect it before the ngay: 'o-ra-ya'-ngan, as
KGT talks about the planet-ending -ya' (Sorya', DenIbya', lIghonya', etc.) at
some length.
QeS 'utlh
