[1200] in tlhIngan-Hol
House languages & conversational Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 6 13:15:16 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: (Mark E. Shoulson) <shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 09:17:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: Matthew Faupel's message of Mon, 5 Jul 1993 17:05:59 +0100 <930705
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>From: matthew@viper.uk.tele.nokia.fi (Matthew Faupel)
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 17:05:59 +0100
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>ObtlhIngan: I've managed to get hold of the tape "conversational Klingon",
>though none of my local bookshops have got TKD in stock (I've now got it on
>order). No textual key is provided with the tape and so I'm having to guess
>how the words on the tape match with the pronunciation guide posted some
>days ago. To help me out, could someone tell me whether the following are
>the correct transcriptions of the curses given at the beginning:
Not quite:
> ghu'vatlh
Qu'vatlh (p.58)
> toDSaH
Yes. (p. 178)
> QuI'cha'
ghuy'cha' (p. 58) Note that (I believe) Klingon never has vowel hiatus.
Vowels only touch consonants (including glides), and possibly the end of
the word (and the next word can't start with a vowel anyway).
>If anyone does have the tape, perhaps they could point out to me examples of
>each consonant use, e.g. in easy to spot words such as the personal pronouns
>and numbers. Incidentally, for those that don't have the tape, it's worth
>getting for the laughs alone. The conversations involving a Terran visiting
>Kronos are particularly good :-)
Well, lessee. Aside from the ones you noted above, there's "q" in taHqeq,
"ng" in tera'ngan (which he mispronounces as tera'nang at least once). "p"
in things like "pIpIH" (the hotel scene, another classic)...
~mark
