[89440] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Galen Buttitta)
Mon Sep 5 22:42:08 2011
From: Galen Buttitta <satorarepotenetoperarotas3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <EBC3BB7E-33D9-43A0-87EB-793823F57AB8@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 21:36:27 -0500
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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Voiced th (or /D/ in X-SAMPA) would probably go to /v/; in some English accents, if I recall Wikipedia correctly, voiceless th (or /T/) has gone to /f/. Given the phonology of the languages in question that would be my supposition.
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On Sep 5, 2011, at 21:28, "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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> 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".
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> 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}.
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> Just pondering, aimlessly...
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