tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 21 19:10:06 1995
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r'e' jachbogh tlhIngan
> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 22:49:21 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Riku Anttila <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: That's my name, don't use it up.
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > The "r" is supposedly a lingual trill (tho Okrand often uses a back sound),
> > which is what I can't really do.
> Is trilling an r indeed that difficult? I think learned to do it in the age
> of 3, but before that it always turned to an 'l' in my mouth. Imagine what
> it must have been like not being able to pronounce my own name.
An acquired taste, I suppose --- pays to be in the right language community!
Myself, to this day I can't manage a uvular trill (thank you *so* much,
France!), and any attempt to do a retroflex trill (as in Dvo^rak) throws
me into convulsions...
> I recall someone complaining about the difficulty of {rgh} some time ago,
> too. Once I learned {gh}, I haven't had trouble with it - but perhaps I
> do it wrong. Differently from Okrand, anyhow.
Yeah, I didn't say it when charghwI' mentioned his difficulty, but Modern
Greek has rgh with the r trilled (as in argha "late"), with nary an eyelid
batted.
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