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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Jan 7 16:48:51 2013

Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:45:34 -0800
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W500EFCF96AC5A9181A91B5AA250@phx.gbl>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org


>I haven't the skill, time, or desire to work out an accurate way of 
>counting affix representations, but the following counts of raw 
>syllables that correspond to certain affixes with qaghwI' in them 
>may reveal something:

I wonder if pojwI' could be pressed into service for this. It could 
also determine the frequency of various nouns and verbs.

>Ahh, fair enough. My count at the moment is 267 and 0. :) (I should 
>probably mix it up a bit more with the varieties of different 
>speakers. I just never think to vary function words like "but" and "yes".)

I usually only bring out HISlaH when there is any possibility of it 
being confused with an imperative.

> > And I only used ngagh and its derivatives about twenty times. :P

>Huh. Is that all? Is it just your racy metaphor that made me think 
>it was much more? ;)

Maybe it's Hegh and Hagh that up the gh count. Hegh Hagh regh ragh 
legh ngagh ... bom vIqonnIS.

- Qov 


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