[Tlhingan-hol] qaghwI' between consonants

[SuStel]

On 10/24/2015 11:02 AM, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
>
> Am 24.10.2015 um 08:11 schrieb Robyn Stewart:
>> ... What you can do is what most authors do, writing "english"
>> Klingon names as we know "K'mtor" or "K'Tinga", but that's no
>> tlhIngan Hol. ...
>
> I had the impression that that sort of apostrophe sometimes meant
> "short unaccented vowel" or "here a vowel was dropped": e.g. the
> alternate spellings "p'tahk" / {petaQ}.

This sort of apostrophe means "I'm writing sci-fi and I think this makes 
the name seem alien!"

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