tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 06 13:51:30 1995
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Re: Re PetaQ
The phonological nature of comparing sounds, even given high-tech
equipment does not turn petaQ into be'taH, even betaQ. However, /p/ and
/b/ and any other unvoiced/voiced (soft/hard) stop (consonant) do *not*
travel well in the type of narrow spectrum assigned to television audio.
This is the problem in your analysis.
The fidelity of tv audio is so poor, that actually, a small dialectical
variation by Roxann Biggs-Dawson in her pronunciation of /p/ could easily
end up "sounding" like a /b/.
The truth is that as we've heard petaQ pronounced before, it is turned
into a unaccented syllable + accented syllable. This makes
peh-TAKKKKKH
Since the initial /p/ is in an unaccented syllable, it loses the usually
strong aspiration in an initial English /p/... This makes it also sound
more like /b/.
But it's /p/. The closed caption clearly read PETAQ....
Anyway, as for the idea of "negative woman".... There is no clear Hol
analog to the English prefix anti-... Maybe "gholbe'" would be an
acceptable noun-noun compound for "opposing woman" and a cute pun on
"ghobe'"
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