[2361] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Okrand on glottal stops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 17 09:45:17 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 14:45:21 GMT
I can't see the problem with glottal stops at the beginning of words.
They're there. Speak them. What's the problem? Klingon has sounds a lot
stranger (to an English-only speaker) than initial glottal stops. Shall we
say that "tlh" is really pronounced "kl"?
Remember the snatch of low-status Klingon dialect on Power Klingon? Sounds
exactly like a Terran speaker who hasn't mastered the counds of the
standard Klingon dialect. I think Okrand is telling us something here.
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