tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 24 21:33:12 2003
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Re: the glottal stop
On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:16:45PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Just exactly how would one pronounce a glottal stop before the word?
In English, the glottal stop is assumed when a vowel begins a word. In
Klingon, few (no?) words begin with vowels, because the glottal stop is
not assumed.
In English, to indicate that there is no glottal stop preceding a word
that begins with a vowel, we use an "h". Consider "hate" and "ate".
They have the same sounds but for the glottal stop that begins the
latter.
As an aside, it's interesting that when first learining Klingon, I
thought it odd that there would be a letter indicating the glottal stop.
It seemed like a strange way to indicate that information. But it must
be even stranger to have a letter indicating the lack of a glottal stop.
--
David "cogent" Hand
<http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[email protected]> <icq:4321282>