Re: HUMOUR: Pronounce This...

--- In conlang@y..., Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@M...> wrote:

> > > Of course, one can never forget "GHOTI", pronounced [fiS].
> > (I forgot who
> > > invented this one, but it is constructed by taking "gh"
> > from "enough", "o"
> > > from "women", and "ti" from "nation".)
> >
> > George Bernard Shaw.  But of course this one is bogus:  GH is
> > /f/ only when
> > syllabic final, O is /I/ *only* in the word "women" and no other, and
> > TI is /S/ only in -tion /S@n/.
>
> But that has if course been rectified by Marc Okrand - _ghotI_ *is*
> 'fish' in Klingon :))
LOL, didn't know that.  Kudos to Okrand for a pun well placed.  ;-)

BTW, does anyone have an e-mail address of Okrand?  I've always
wanted to ask him a question or two.  =P


-- Christian Thalmann