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Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Badgley)
Tue Sep 6 08:13:27 2011
From: "Josh Badgley " <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
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" < lytlesw@gmail.com>, " tlhingan-hol@kli.org " < tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:07:57 +0000
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In the TKD its mention that some Klingons pronounce w as Hw...I can attest that my wife (who is Mexican American) pronounces her w's thisway when she's excited...sometimes even like ghw...perhaps Klingons would as well
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Date: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 6:55:07 am
To: lytlesw@gmail.com;tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Klingon accent
On a more serious note though I noticed that in TKD it's mention
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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 com
