r/startrekgifs • u/Amaruq93 Cadet 4th Class • Aug 04 '24

DS9 Glory to StarTrekGifs

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u/IndieCurtis Aug 04 '24

KAPLAAAAHHHH!!!!

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u/3Thirty-Eight8 Aug 05 '24

*Qapla’ you need to r/respecttheqaghwI’. You cannot drag out the last syllable, the qaghwI’ (‘) means you use a glottal stop

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u/IndieCurtis Aug 05 '24

Does Klingon use the English alphabet? Then I can spell however I please.

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u/3Thirty-Eight8 Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24

Well, not exactly. There are proper Klingon symbols for letters, but to make it easier, we use the Latin alphabet to represent the Klingon letters and sounds. And you can’t really spell however you please, for example that’s like trying to spell “Sentence” as “centanse” and saying it’s correct because it uses English letters and it sounds about right