[89451] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Tue Sep 6 08:38:47 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:32:49 +0200
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 05:17, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:28 PM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv <
> lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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)".
In my experience, Germans usually end up with "ziss ssing".
Cheers,
Philip
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