tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 08 19:20:20 1998
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Re: Pronouncing "''"
Peter Schuller writes:
>I was wondering, are you really supposed to pronounce ' twice when
>it occurs twice ('')?
The same problem occurs with all the "stop" consonants. Does {yIttaH}
have a doubled {t} sound in the middle? Is {Soppa'} prounced with two
{p}s? Marc Okrand addresses this on pages 138 and 139 of _Klingon for
the Galactic Traveler_, saying that reducing it to a single sound is
considered "sloppy" or "careless", but it does happen. It's noted as
a characteristic of younger speakers, while older Klingons would either
pronounce each consonant distinctly or hold the sound briefly before
letting the air through again. In the specific case of two {'}s, the
older Klingons also have tendency to reduce the sound to a single {'}.
-- ghunchu'wI'