tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 19 12:30:47 1995
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Re: Glottal (and other) stops
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Glottal (and other) stops
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:30:44 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Jim Boniface" at Jun 16, 95 3:07 pm
According to Jim Boniface:
>
>
> >So "glottal stop" isn't some mystical phrase coined to define the peculiar
> >grunt that Klingon {'} represents. It's just a particular kind of a "stop".
>
> Not being even close to an expert on speaking Klingon, I usually describe
> glottal stops to people who haven't even begun learning as, "start to say
> the sound, the pretend someone punched you in the chest just hard enough to
> make you stop talking for a fraction of a second, then continue with the
> sound a little quieter"
>
> If this is off, please tell me, because I'm doing "it" wrong. :)
This is fine. A simpler explanation is to say it is the sound
between the two vowels in "uh-oh", the non-word we use when
something just went amiss.
> Qapla!
>
> Jim
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