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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon spoken in latest Big Bang Theory?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Thu May 17 09:19:41 2012
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 06:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W33160251A0985B5D86C0ADAA190@phx.gbl>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
--- On Wed, 5/16/12, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
> =
> ghItlhpu' loghaD, jatlh:
> > I haven't seen the episode, but is it possible they
> were going for =ABtaHjaj 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 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."
> =
It could hardly be otherwise. A consonent is simply a stoppage in the air s=
tream of your voice; without the following air (i.e. vowel), a consonent ca=
n't be heard. If you listen closely to your own language, every final conso=
nent is followed by a weak air stream, because otherwise you wouldn't be ab=
le to hear it. MO's comments about ' just make that explicit for Klingon, p=
robably to emphasize that ' is a real consonent.
-- ter'eS
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