[86802] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Yet another newbie!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tracy Canfield)
Tue Nov 10 20:35:54 2009
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:33:21 -0500
From: Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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A quick question about Swedish, because it might get you a better answer
about Klingon:
Would you say these two Swedish words are pronounced differently?
Specifically the s sound?
lössen
lösen
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> tlhIngan Hol vIghoj vIneH!
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> Here is another Swedish newbie. Thing is, there was a program on Swedish
> television about a month ago about artificial languages, and in particular
> Klingon. Interviews with Marc Okrand, Arika Okrent and notable Swedish
> Klingonists. And I got caught.
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> So I have gotten KLD and downloaded {pojwI'}, which I'm using together
> with a flashcard program called Anki (tip to Jacob!) which is nice since
> you get to make your own cards and it uses a spaced repetition algorithm
> to show them to you suitably often.
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> I wonder if anyone have good ideas for pronounciation training; I have
> used the descriptions, the recorded phrases at the KLI site and the Forvo
> site. And of course, I listen to {taH pagh taHbe'} over and over again ;-)
> But beyond that?
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> One thing in particular that puzzles me is how {Duy'a'} and {Duy''a'}
> differ in sound, that is, how to say {''}.
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> Also, I wonder about using locative in a noun phrase, as in {bIQDaq veng},
> my attempt at translating "the city on the water" (yes, I know a true
> Klingon would not associate his city with water...). Is that ok?
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> {jIlabta'}
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> {buSwI'}
> aka kff
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