tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 05 00:58:20 1998
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Re: introduction
- From: "Albert Arendsen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: introduction
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:58:09 +0100
>ja' Chakotay:
>>to quote from the KLI site:
>>
>>gh: A gargled sound, at the back of the throat. Like the Klingon H, only
>>voiced. It's very much like the French gargled "r."
>
>Does the KLI page *really* say this? Golly, it does. Mark, fix it! It's
>very misleading. The sound is made in the back of the *mouth*, not in the
>throat. TKD says the tongue should be in the same position as an English
>"g", but a little more relaxed. That's exactly the same articulation point
>as a Klingon {H} and an English "k".
since I had already learned the pronounciation from the KLI site I didn't
really bother to read that part of TKD... as you describe it the sound made
exactly the same as many Dutch people prounounce the [r], which is not the
official Dutch pronounciation, btw ;-)
personally I switch both pronounciations, depending on wether the sounds
before and after are done in the front or in the back of the mouth.
thanks for the information.
Chakotay