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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon spoken in latest Big Bang Theory?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh)
Thu May 17 00:39:50 2012
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 14:39:33 +1000
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C2B05B@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
ghItlhpu' loghaD, jatlh:
> I haven't seen the episode, but is it possible they were going for =ABtaH=
jaj wo'=BB?
> I know they sometimes interpret apostrophes as "pronounce the last vowel =
twice"
> (Qapla-aa!).
Actually that's one of the things that has *most* impressed me about the Bi=
g Bang
Theory Klingon. It shows they've actually read the phonology properly. Reme=
mber
that this kind of echo-vowel is explicitly described by Marc in TKD 1.1:
"When Klingon {'} comes at the end of a word, the vowel preceding the {'} i=
s often
repeated in a very soft whisper, as if an echo... Occasionally the echo is =
quite
audible, with a guttural sound like {gh} preceding the echoed vowel. For ex=
ample,
{yIlI'} "transmit it!" can sound more like {yIlI'ghI}. This extra-heavy ech=
o is
heard most often when the speaker is particularly excited or angry."
QeS 'utlh
=
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