[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: boqrat

[Lieven]

Am 25.06.2015 um 15:11 schrieb lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
> If this were transliterated as bo-krat, it probably would have been {boQat} instead of {boqrat},

Yes, that's true. My example was just to show that it may be something 
else than bok+rat, not a pronunciation guide.

One must remember that the english spelling was there first, and boq-rat 
simply follows bok-rat.

I just look closer at the script, which I should have doen earlier. The 
word is spelled with an hyphen, so the bok-rat ist most probably a 
"rat"-like animal.  So on the other side (from a production view) the 
klingon word is a bad transliteration. I guess Okrand din't know what 
the animal was, because otherwise I may have said something like {boq 
Qa'}... :-)


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