Re: Pronounciation of " HIDjolev "

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>]

ngabwI':
> >I hear {va-voy}, as a normal CVCVC, but that may be my brain forcing what I
> >actually hear to conform with what I *think* I *should* hear.

QeS lagh:
>'e' vIHonbe'. jIHvaD qaS je wanI'vetlh'e'. Occasionally I even have to stop
>myself stressing the {-(v)-oy} syllable because of this.

lay'tel SIvten:
> >You'll only hear the difference when the two morphemes are spoken
> >separately, i.e. with a pause between them.  Otherwise they are the same
> >sequence of sounds.  The morpheme division is irrelevent.

QeS lagh:
>What I think he means is that his brain (and mine, too, for that matter)
>analyses the syllable structure of the word {vavoy} as {va-voy}, and that
>the syllable division does not conform to the morphemic one. This is the
>only instance in all of Klingon where the morpheme boundary and the syllable
>boundary do not coincide.

What about {Qapla'} - which all actors and fans, and even some Klingonists, 
pronounce /ka-PLA/?



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons