[89444] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict)
Mon Sep 5 23:23:01 2011
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From: MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:17:07 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM, 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".
I would expect this to be "ziss ssing" or "ziss ting". Or (maybe more
German): "diss ting(k)".
lay'tel SIvten
> A Klingon might say it something like {ghIS tlhIng}.
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> Just pondering, aimlessly...
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> lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
> lojmIttI7wI7nuv@gmail.com
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