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Re: Power Klingon




Please do not send any further messages. Dr. Rynes is not available to read them, and even though I am a very capable secretary I do not read Klingon. Thank you.           Deborah K. Parker (Dr. Rynes' assistant/secretary)
 Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:Quvar wrote:
>> >and the Power Klingon audio tape
>>This one's great!! Marc Okrand speaks.

Sangqar:
>I didn't know MO spoke on this one; when I saw it in a bookstore, it had a 
>picture of Michael Dorn on the cover.

It's just like "Conversational Klingon": Dorn narrates the background story 
and explanations in English, Okrand pronounces the Klingon phrases (along 
with 2 or 3 other actors providing English translations of these 
phrases). This probably means that they recorded their contributions 
separately.

If you want to hear how well - or how badly! - Dorn speaks tlhIngan Hol, 
listen to "The Klingon Way" audiotape. Michael Dorn and Roxanne 
Biggs-Dawson ("B'Elanna") take turns reciting selected proverbs from the 
book, with a little explanation thrown in. Interestingly, Biggs-Dawson's 
pronunciation is *much* better than Dorn's even though she had only been 
playing a Klingon for about a year when she recorded the tape. It's not 
perfect, mind - apparently Okrand wasn't there to coach them - but her 
Klingon isn't bad. (She must have done her homework and studied Okrand's 
pronunciation on CK and PK.)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 



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