[89449] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Tue Sep 6 08:00:14 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:55:42 +0000
In-Reply-To: <SNT106-W1044E263E2FAA97A3027ABA11C0@phx.gbl>
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ghItlhta' qomeQ,
> Also, although Kruge speaks English without an accent in ST:III, the
> way he stresses/inflects English words seems to be Klingon-ish.
Not unreasonable; in my experience, emulating the melody of a language is a lot harder than any of the individual phonemes. I can sound fairly American for brief periods of time, but it takes quite a bit of energy and WHEN not NE-ce-SSARY I quick-LY re-VERT back-TO a Swe-DISH SPEECH-patt-ERN.
