[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ray'

Lieven levinius at gmx.de
Fri May 22 09:53:08 PDT 2015


Am 20.05.2015 um 18:56 schrieb Steven Boozer:
> Which also happens with {'entepray'} "Enterprise" (ST5), a good example that not every foreign sound needs to be transcribed.

When I first read that word, and heard it on screen, I thought it sounds 
like "enter-prise", so {'ente-pray'}. It was a quite a long time till I 
noticed that it does fit Klingon spelling perfectly, when you see 
{'en-tep-ray'}.  :-)

-- 
Lieven L. Litaer
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Grammarian of the KLI
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