[101270] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Canon: Associate Producer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sat Oct 3 04:25:33 2015
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:25:22 +0200
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I wrote:
> Because in Klingon, no word starts with a vowel. Even from a linguistic
> view, in most languages, words woth vowels start with a glottal stop.
> Try saying "I ate eight egg" without the stop. I will sound like
> "hi-yate-tate-hags".
Am 22.09.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Anthony Appleyard:
> In my pronunciation of English (I am in England), the separator in "I-ate-eight-eggs" is a slight hesitation, and not a true glottal stop with closure of the glottis.
This may be correct from a linguistic point of view, but my explanation
is the very closest approachment I can get to explain this to a
non-linguist, which are most of the Klingon students.
It's also possible that my example does not work exactly in english as
it does in German though.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Apostrophe
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