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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon spoken in latest Big Bang Theory?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Thu May 17 07:45:32 2012
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
<tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:45:05 +0000
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ghItlhta' QeS 'utlh,
> Actually that's one of the things that has *most* impressed me about the Big Bang
> Theory Klingon. It shows they've actually read the phonology properly. Remember
> 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 {'} is 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 example,
> {yIlI'} "transmit it!" can sound more like {yIlI'ghI}. This extra-heavy echo is
> heard most often when the speaker is particularly excited or angry."
vIlIjpu'. Doj.
ghItlhta' ghunchu'wI',
> It was undeniably {DaHjaj mobHa' tlhIH}, with the next line starting
> {DaHjaj...} as well. I am certain he was interrupted before he could
> finish it with {...tagh wo'}.
>
> See http://www.tasigh.org/kordite/wedding.html for a likely source of the lines.
Qapla'!
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