[2549] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Questions about questions..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 13:46:09 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: Mark Reed <Mark.Reed@cad.gatech.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 13:42:21 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <9401141505.AA12358@kla.com> from "Matt Gomes" at Jan 14, 94 07:07
:26 am
\ Very simple, but my tendency as an English speaker is to inflect up
\at the end since it's a question (Do you understand?).
\
\ Now the question is... would that be proper? Or do Klingons speak in
\a monotone with no inflections. Any suggestions/thoughts/concepts?
It is sometimes dangerous to map inflections from one language to another,
but most of the time you just end up sounding silly to the natives. In
the case of Klingon, though, we have audio of "native" speakers -
from Star Trek III, Star Trek VI, Conversational Klingon, and Power Klingon.
(I'm omitting the various TNG episodes because Dr. Okrand didn't coach the
actors in most cases).
It seems to me that the speakers in these examples inflect up at the end of
a question, so I gather that it is at least acceptable and probably common
to do so in tlhIngan Hol.
-Mark
