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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] words for the letters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Apr 9 15:43:13 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:42:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <8D1223FD3F5AFEA-20AC-44FB2@webmail-m264.sysops.aol.com>
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gheyIl:
>> I just discovered the words bay, chay, Day, etc which are used for the
>> sounds of the letters b, ch, D, etc. =
Lieven:
> IIRC that was exactly the intention for these syllables. Maltz said that
> these are not the "names" of the letters, but one uses these sound to
> spell words.
I vaguely remember this, but I don't have it in my notes. Lieven, if you'v=
e kept it would you post the original post? Thanks.
> Would you be comfortable using these words for the letters themselves
> ... as in spelling out a word?
> {chay' pongwIj vIghItlh? =A0ghay 'et yay 'It lay}
I suppose they could be the names for the tiles in Scrabble, but how else w=
ould you use these "words"? =
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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