[89453] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Tue Sep 6 08:48:17 2011
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20110905194810.050e2f48@flyingstart.ca>
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:41:19 +0200
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 04:53, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> At 19:28 05/09/2011, you wrote:
>>and do strange things to "G"
>
> It might go to H. Russian G goes to H when Ukraininans say it.
I thought that that was [ɦ], not [x] (which is what Klingon H is) -
less raspy. My guess would have been for English /g/ to end up as /ɣ/,
i.e. Klingon "gh".
> It and
> English K might both be q.
Also possible.
Also, vowel-initial words would get a {'} at the beginning... but I
think that happens in English anyway, so that shouldn't sound too
strange. I wonder, though, whether they'd also tack on a {'} to
vowel-final words: while Klingon does have them, they're rare compared
to consonant-final ones (including {'}-final ones).
"ZH" would presumably also go to "S", or possibly to "j"? "mejIr" or
"meSIr" for "measure"?
"With tenure, Suzie'd have all the more leisure for yachting, but her
publications are no good." --> "wID tenyIr, SujID hav ol DI mor lejIr
vor yotIng, bat hIr pablIqeySIns 'ar no ghuD"?
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
