tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 03 07:07:50 2006
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Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?
- From: Eric Zay <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 07:07:36 -0700 (PDT)
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- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
Not really and s? What would you call it then?
[email protected] wrote: What regional pronunciations? I've only ever heard it pronounced (in
English, not Italian) as /pi:ts@/, with an unvoiced /ts/. No /z/, and not really a
/s/, either.
>
> >And it doesn't apply anyway, because he's
> >not suggesting that the word be respelled to fit the typical Klingon
> >phonology. It's just being borrowed directly. Just like saying
> >"croissant" in English, which lacks the distinctive nasal vowelish
> >sound at the end.
>
> You read alot into his statement. All I saw was:
>
> And at least one answer to the original question "How do you say 'pizza'
> in
> Klingon?" is simply {*pizza*}.
>
ghunchu'wI''s comment reflects exactly what I meant by my original comment.
lay'tel SIvten
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