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Re: HUMOUR: Pronounce This...

From:Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 20:00
--- 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