Ing The Puny
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totlh is the correct spelling. But be'thal called him a tolth', not a tolth. tolth' is actually not a word in Klingon, they have no character that is represented with our 'h'. toltH' would be a word, though. totlh is actually a 3-letter word in Klingon, we use the combination tlh to represent a single Klingon character. If you go back a bit over a year on the KDB boards, you'll see a discussion about events on "Section tlh". Which would be just like us saying "Section C", only with a Klingon letter. On the other hand, there is also no Klingon character which is properly represented in our alphabet using the letter k, or K for that matter. Which means all those names K'Hare, K'rahl, m'rek, K'tar, K'megh, K'grath, K'tanna, Khoal, and so on are all incorrect Klingon as well. Klingon has several different sounds that are similar to the english K, but they are represented by q or Q, with somewhat less similar sounds being represented by gh, tlh, and H. So in proper Klingon they should be spelled with one of those instead of a K. For example, Khitomer in Klingon is QI'tomer. And 'Klingon' in Klingon is tlhIngan. -Ing Edit: Then again, it was K'Hare that said, "Now I am a tolth..." without the break character ('). So that's three different ranks he's been called.
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