[89445] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Badgley)
Tue Sep 6 07:19:45 2011
From: Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
To: KLI <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 06:07:12 -0500
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If you can withstand all of the cringe worthy moments, watch ST:V again. tlha'a HoD speaks English with what is apparently a "Klingon" accent.
Also, although Kruge speaks English without an accent in ST:III, the way he stresses/inflects English words seems to be Klingon-ish.
Or maybe I'm imagining things...it's very likely :)
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> From: lytlesw@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:17:07 -0400
> Subject: Re: Klingon accent
> 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".
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> I would expect this to be "ziss ssing" or "ziss ting". Or (maybe more
> German): "diss ting(k)".
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> > 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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