tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 07 19:41:03 2004
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Hot toddies and glottal stops
- From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Hot toddies and glottal stops
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:47:17 -0500
>From: [email protected]
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: tlhIngan-Hol Digest 7 Jan 2004 06:00:00 -0000 Issue 2810
>Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:43:36 EST
>
>In a message dated 2004-01-07 2:19:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>
>
> > In the middle of a word, it is a slight pause, like "hot toddy".
> >
>this is not an example of a glottal stop; it's merely a prolonging of the
>'t'
>sound.
>"uh-oh" has a glottal stop in the middle of it, as well as at the
>beginning.
>lay'tel SIvten
Perhaps I should have qualified this statement: When *I* say "hot toddy" at
normal conversational speed, it has a glottal stop, and I've yet to be
misunderstood.
Sorry for the confusion.
--ngabwI'
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