Naming Conventions

[merrybot]

last time I checked "Q" was not a syllable

 

[KRAD]

I imagine maybe it's something like Japanese, where the syllables are always pronounced distinctly even when it's so fast that they seem to be blended together. For instance, we say "Keiko" as two syllables, "Kay-ko," but in Japanese, if you listen carefully, it's actually "Keh-ee-ko." It's even clearer in song, when syllables are sung as separate notes, so that a word like "dan" could sound like "dah-nnn" with the stress on the N if it's at the end of a line, say. When Japanese people draw out a word for clarity or effect, instead of saying it slowly like English speakers would, they pronounce each syllable distinctly with pauses between them.

You have officially put more thought into it than I did.

Honestly, that naming convention (which I used in a bunch of places in my Trek fiction) was just me making fun of the general overuse of apostrophes in alien names...........

 

[Christopher]

last time I checked "Q" was not a syllable

"N" is a syllable in Japanese, so "Q" could be one in an alien language.