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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qepHom 2015 with Marc Okrand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Sat Mar 28 22:16:25 2015
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From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:15:33 -0400
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:33 PM, DloraH <seruq@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> And in this general thread, the mention of the French j... whether it be discussing Klingon, or
> other places I have come across it, I don't know French. I've always wondered, why would a book
> written for an American audience (not just TKD) make a comparison to a foreign sound?
> Stereotypically, Americans are not familiar with other languages.
"Soup du jour" is probably encountered often enough to make the
other-language "j" worth guarding against.
> Even after a couple decades with
> this hobby of studying languages, Klingon, Thai, Arabic, Maori, and a few others, I still have no
> idea what TKD means where it says "never ever as in French /jour/."
I suspect it refers to an actual on-set incident during the filming of
Star Trek III. I remember Marc Okrand mentioning something about a
mispronounced word being noticed by Leonard Nimoy, who I think then
complained that the character was supposed to be Klingon, not French.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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