On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:39 AM, kechpaja <kechpaja@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Michael Roney, Jr. wrote:
> > Speaking of syllables, there are 2,541 possible syllables in Klingon.
>
> How did you arrive at that number? I'm getting 2625 = 21 initials X 5
> vowels X (24 finals + null final).
>
Did you subtract the (ow, ow', uw, uw') endings?
> > 1,814 have been used
> > 3 of them will never be used.
>
> Two of these are reminiscent of a common expletive referring to
> excrement. What's the third, though?
>
Qov
> > data obtained from yIH'a'na'
>
> Where/what is that? Google deletes the {qaghwI'mey}, so I'm having
> tribble finding it (/ducks).
>
> -SapIr
She's a who. (she's also a computational linguist)
We were privately discussing Klingon syllables and this seemed like a good thread to share her findings.