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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tlhorghHa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Mon May 12 15:03:01 2014
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:02:42 -0400
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E02F7DA02D@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 5/12/2014 2:50 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Steven Boozer:
> AFAIK the actors always pronounced it with a /g/ - i.e. /gakh/
In "A Matter of Honor," which is the episode that introduces the stuff, =
Riker first pronounces it /gahg/ (rhymes with "frog"), and Pulaski =
repeats him in astonishment and pronounces it /gakh/ (rhymes with {ghaH}).
I always find it amusing when two actors don't agree on a pronunciation =
and when one is supposed to be repeating the words of the other and says =
it differently. Clearly they had looked up the word {ghagh}. Okrand =
later codified the /gakh/ pronunciation with {qagh}.
Anyway, the episode is all about how the peoples of the Federation know =
so little about the Klingons. Riker doesn't know qagh is supposed to be =
eaten live, and even later he eats live qagh with a fork=97the business =
about Klingons eating with their hands hadn't been invented yet, and =
this is probably why Okrand told us about puq chonnaQmey. So it's little =
wonder we have conflicting information.
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SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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