[2556] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Questions about questions..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 14:34:39 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: "trI'Qal" <DOBELBOWER%OPUS@cutter.mco.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:24:12 -0400 (EDT)
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My apologies for not speaking in Hol, but I don't have time to translate this
today. {{:(
Granted, I am no expert, but one of my greatest concerns when I first
started listing to _Conversational Klingon_ was that I was drastically
misprounouncing and mis-inflecting everything. Everything *flowed* more than I
thought it did. And yes, indeed, I was suprised to hear the way questions were
asked. I don't have a tape player handy to verify, but I am VERY certain that
every (or almost every) single question on that tape had a raised inflection,
as in English, right on the -'a' syllable, which in these cases were the last
sylables in the sentences.
In this case, I concurr. You do indeed put a similar kind of inflection
in. (Did Okrand talk about this on the tape? I don't recall...) Of course,
the pabpo' may very well say this is totally incorrect, but I doubt it. {{:)
--HoD trI'Qal
tlhwD lIy So'
