Timeline for Is there a Klingon word for "curiosity"?
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | loghaD | Many words are only differentiatd by the presence of a glottal stop, i.e. maymo' ("because it is fair") vs. may'mo' ("because of a battle"). | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | loghaD | Nope; the apostrophe is considered a letter in romanized tlhIngan Hol (corresponding to a glottal stop), and so adding it to a word is considered a spelling error, akin to writing "laptop" as "laphtop".Many words are | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 16:52 | comment | added | Codosaur | If you follow the universal rules of linguistic lenition, if you don't want the second of two consonants to change, you need to introduce a pause. If I'm not mistaken you can do that in Klingon with either a space of a " ' ". | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 22:34 | comment | added | loghaD | I'm afraid both of these are grammatically incorrect; Klingon doesn't have (regular) noun-verb or verb-verb compounds. Also, v'n is a forbidden consonant cluster. You can, however, use Sov as the object of neH or nej: Sov neH. = "She/He wants knowledge."; Sov nej. = "She/He seeks knowledge." | |
| Sep 26, 2018 at 17:09 | history | answered | Codosaur | CC BY-SA 4.0 |