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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] -qH- vs. -Q-
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sun Nov 27 11:17:16 2011
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:16:46 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+cwSm9NJhdM9feunPnosAOU7Fd43v1QpRsgcD6xTtVdA7Kc=g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/27/2011 5:09 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> As I was practising flashcards, I came across {voqHa'} "distrust", and
> I noticed that I pronounced it almost like *{voQa'}.
>
> That made me wonder (a) whether the sequences -qH- and -Q- are
> pronounced differently, and (b) whether there are any cases where a
> word could be confused by swapping -qH- for -Q- or vice versa.
Properly pronounced, {voqHa'} and *{voQa'} don't sound alike at all.
I say "properly pronounced," because very often {q} and especially {Q}
are not properly pronounced. I was browsing Klingon speech on YouTube
last night. I came across someone reciting Hamlet's {taH pagh taHbe'}
soliloquy. He pronounced all his {Q}s like {q}s. It was very frustrating.
And aside from the pronunciation of {Q}, the sequence {qH} should also
be double the length. It simply takes longer to say it.
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SuStel
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