[tlhIngan Hol] Tempting..

Daniel Dadap daniel at dadap.net
Wed Jan 9 12:02:59 PST 2019



> On Jan 9, 2019, at 12:07, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 9, 2019, at 11:16 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>> 
>> We see transliterations between English and Klingon drop sounds all the time. France -> vIraS...       What happened to the n?
> 
> Assuming you’re serious:
> 
> It was never there in the first place. The French “an” is a vowel, most closely approximated in Klingon as {a}.
> 

Perhaps a Qotmagh speaker saying {vIraS} might come closer to the French pronunciation than an English speaker saying “France”, at least as far as the vowel is concerned.

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