tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 23 19:11:18 1995
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Re: That's my name, don't use it up.
- From: "Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: That's my name, don't use it up.
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 22:11:18 -0400
> > > 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.
> >
> > I recall someone complaining about the difficulty of {rgh} some time ago,
> > too.
>
> When I saw Okrand at Stellarcon 17, he began by talking about
> how certain letter combinations were intentionally difficult. I
> suggested {rgh}, since smoothly moving between a trill at the
> tip of the tongue to the growling fricative at the base of the
> tongue is no small trick. Okrand shook his head and said,
> "That's easy." He then used a non-trill "r", which easily
> preceeds the {gh} and spoke of how it is much more difficult to
> pronounce {Dt} or {tD}.
>
> While I agree that these are difficult, I think they are easy
> next to {rgh} if you do indeed trill the {r}. Since Okrand
> doesn't, I'm having a hard time bothering to try to do it
> myself, especially since it is in MY name.
>
> > > ~mark
> >
> > .:ghor:.
> >
>
> charrrrrrrghwI'
Nope, doesn't seem particularly difficult to me. Maybe because I eat RRRRufles
potato chips with all those rrrrridges (as opposed to "smooth" chips).
Maybe we'll have a trilling competition at the qep'a'. 16 days and counting
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