[Tlhingan-hol] New word: bridge

[David Trimboli]

On 8/19/2012 9:18 PM, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh wrote:
> nujatlh Qov:
>  > The word for "bridge" (as in over a river) is <QI> (one of those weird
>  > vowel-final words).
>
> jang De'vID, jatlh:
>  > This is most certainly a reference to the novel by Pierre Boulle,
>  > especially the way he phrased it ("bridge... as in over a river").
>
> jang DloraH, jatlh:
>  > That was the first thought that came to my mind as well the very
> moment I read it. And then I tried
>  > to make the pronunciation fit better, but couldn't; so I didn't say
> anything.
>
> If you spell it quickly using the English letternames ("cue-eye") it
> gets pretty close.

Or you can mispronounce it the way non-Klingon speakers attempt to 
pronounce anything with a {Q} or {q}: add a "u" to it and make the {I} 
sound like "aye."

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