[89439] in tlhIngan-Hol
Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Mon Sep 5 22:35:11 2011
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 22:28:56 -0400
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Today's I randomly wondered what it would sound like for a native Klingon speaker to speak English with a Klingon accent. The closest we've come to this is transliteration. But what would it sound like for someone to natively speak Klingon to try to speak English?
All the actors seem to indicate that it would come out sounding like Shakespearean English, but I suspect it would be quite different. They'd push English vowel sounds toward the fewer Klingon vowels, replace "F" with "V" and do strange things to "G" and "S". Maybe unvoiced "TH" would come out {tlh}. I don't really know what they'd do with a voiced "TH".
The classic French accent phrase is "this thing", which comes out either "ziss zing" or "diss ding". A Klingon might say it something like {ghIS tlhIng}.
Just pondering, aimlessly...
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
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