Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 3:40 |
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Steg Belsky scripsit:
>...> In college, i remember seeing an anti-war protest where the protesters
> were chanting slogans like "no war in EYE-RACK!". It took a Lot of
> self-control to not go over and say "yo, if you care so much about
> [3IrA:q], at least TRY to say their name properly!"
I was debating a hawk a few months back on this very subject: he claimed
that the pron. [ajr&k] was a deliberate insult/dehumanization, like
"Jap" in WWII. This is some evidence against that.
I say [Ir\Ak], which is my best approximation when speaking English.
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