[2338] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Pronunciation of glottal stops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 14 22:50:42 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (Marnen Laibow-Koser )
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 22:46:03 EST
In-Reply-To: <01H6HEZ6AO8Y0003B9@opus.mco.edu>; from "trI'Qal" at Dec 14, 93 8:
55 pm
Doch tlha' jatlh tri'Qal:
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: I admit I have not been following most of the postings here of late,
: from RL time contraints, nor have I ever heard either of the two tapes, so if
: my thoughts are totally out of line, please don't splatter my remains over th
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: internet, kill me quickly, and gracefully. {{:)
reH batlh Suvwi' quv HoH Suvwi' quv. ;>
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: I have always imagined, from the description given in the book on the
: pronunciation of the glottal stop, that the blasted thing is pronounced at th
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: beginning of a vowel much like the "double-tongue" technique used by wind
: instrument players. Most of the time, a muscician will kinda say "tah" to
: begin each note, but if they want to play many very quick notes, they will
: alternate the "tah"s with "gah"s, which use the back of the tongue.
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: What does this have to do with Hol'e'? Well, I have always thought of
: the glottal stop as a kind of soft "double-tongue". No, you don't say "gah",
: but it's kinda like you start to, but forget to vocalize the "g" at the
: beginning, so you say something else instead afterword (this being the rest o
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: your tlhIngan word). I'm sorry if this is really vague, but it is hard to
: describe if you have never played a wind instrument. I am not even sure if
: this is "proper" pronunciation.
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: Anyone out there wanna give me a hand? (I will disrupt anyone who
: responds by clapping, or dismembereing either themself or someone else...{{;)
)
Well, I play flute, so I think I understand what you're talking about...it
sounds like you're describing something more like Arabic "`ain" than a glottal
stop (though Klingon >'< seems to lean in that direction at the ends of words
anyway), so I wonder............'ach Dajqu'bej ngerlij!
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: --HoD trI'Qal, tlhvD "lIy So'"
>tlh*w*D< 'oHniS'a'?
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Qapla' Qichqemwi'vo'.
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