tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 12 19:29:06 1998
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Re: introduction
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: introduction
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:27:49 -0800
At 11:24 98-02-12 -0800, Doneq wrote:
}ghItlh William H. Martin
}
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}> This is why I challenge your statement that "no English
}> speaking person will be able to notice the difference between
}> the Dutch words {keuken} and {kuiken}, but percieve both as
}> {koiken} (in Dutch phonetic)." Likely this is true for the vast
}> majority of English speakers, but also likely I would be able
}> to perceive and repeat the difference, though I am an English
}> speaker.
}
}Then, what is your problem with my "r" being pronounced in the back
}of my mouth, instead of in front with the tip of my tongue?
While distinguiishing between sounds is important, so is using the correct
sounds. You could, after all, use a g for gh and a s for r and they would
be perfectly distinguishable by everyone, but they wouldn't be correct Klingon.
Whether or not the Dutch sounds match the Klingon ones I will leave to the
trilingual Dutch-Klingon-English speakers. Let Okrand's descriptions and
the tapes be your measuring stick.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian