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Re: gh and H

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

One thing you can do to train your ear is to
practice pronouncing "minimal pairs" of words,
that is, words that differ only by one sound.
For example, try saying the pairs {negh/neH}
or {ghom/Hom}, or even just the single words
{ghaH} and {Hagh}, and try to make the {gh} and {H}
distinct.

Also, not being a native Klingon speaker, I'm not
going to claim that my pronunciation is always 
accurate.  I console myself with the thought that
even native speakers don't pronounce the sounds
of their own language perfectly consistently from
speaker to speaker or even the same speaker in
different circumstances.  Think of all the different
versions of English you hear in the course of a
day, especially if you live in a cosmopolitan area.
The pure sounds ascribed to any language are to
me just sort of an ideal, or an academic fiction,
and are only loosely related to their actual use
in speech.

-- ter'eS

--- ngabwI' <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shane MiQogh" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:48 PM
> Subject: Re: gh and H
> 
> 
> I checked te'reS's pages but the songs had H and gh
> sound alike there too. 
> lol i think i get it now, i hope... lol
> 
> The {H} and {gh} probably sound alike to you because
> you are a native 
> English speaker, judging from your writing. English
> has neither {H} or {gh}, 
> so your ear simply hasn't been trained to recognize
> the difference between 
> to two, or for that matter, recognize that it has
> signifigance in speech. 
> You'll get there. Get ahold of a copy of
> Conversational Klingon (abbr. "CK") 
> and Power Klingon (PK), those helped me alot.
> 
> --ngabwI'
> Klingon Grammarian
> HovpoH 704354.1
>

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