[89447] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Badgley)
Tue Sep 6 07:56:15 2011
From: "Josh Badgley " <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
To: "lytlesw@gmail.com " <lytlesw@gmail.com>, " tlhingan-hol@kli.org "
< tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:50:55 +0000
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On a more serious note though I noticed that in TKD it's mention
-----Original Message-----
Date: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:20:33 pm
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Klingon accent
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?
>
> 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".
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}.
>
> Just pondering
