[89462] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon accent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Sep 6 11:10:43 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:03:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: <SNT106-DS3569007D9852EFC692C5FA11C0@phx.gbl>
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Josh Badgley:
> 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 this way when she's
> excited...sometimes even like ghw...perhaps Klingons would as well
Worf routinely pronounces Federation Standard /w/ as /hw/ or /wh/, especially when saying "weapons": e.g. "Their wheapons are no match for ours."
Also, remember that actor Michael Dorn - like all actors portraying Klingons - was saying his lines through a set of prosthetic jagged Klingon teeth. This sometimes produces a somewhat breathy sound as part of a Klingon (and, for that matter, Ferengi) "accent".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
