<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">ngavyaw’ ghu = canine’s baby or baby of the canine = puppy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ghu ngavyaw’ = baby’s canine or canine of the baby = baby’s pet</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*puppy* would be pronounced “poop-pee”, if it were pronounceable at all, given the lack of vowel in the second syllable, since a {y} is never a vowel in Klingon. There is no “uh” sound in Klingon, so it would be difficult to transliterate without making it easily confused with “poppy” *{papIy}*.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As human, we think everybody loves puppies, but then, we also think everybody loves tribbles for the same reasons. They just make you feel good to be around them, right? We just want to pick them up and hold them, right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, I wouldn’t make any assumptions about the natural response of Klingons to puppies...</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 13, 2020, at 8:20 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">chay' "puppy" wImughnIS ?<br class=""><br class="">ngavyaw' ghu ?<br class="">ghu ngavyaw' ?<br class="">*puppy* ?<br class=""><br class="">~ Qa'yIn<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>