On 5/12/2014 2:50 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
Steven Boozer:
AFAIK the actors always pronounced it with a /g/ - i.e. /gakh/
In "A Matter of Honor," which is the episode that introduces the stuff, Riker first pronounces it /gahg/ (rhymes with "frog"), and Pulaski repeats him in astonishment and pronounces it /gakh/ (rhymes with {ghaH}).
I always find it amusing when two actors don't agree on a pronunciation and when one is supposed to be repeating the words of the other and says it differently. Clearly they had looked up the word {ghagh}. Okrand later codified the /gakh/ pronunciation with {qagh}.
Anyway, the episode is all about how the peoples of the Federation know so little about the Klingons. Riker doesn't know qagh is supposed to be eaten live, and even later he eats live qagh with a fork—the business about Klingons eating with their hands hadn't been invented yet, and this is probably why Okrand told us about puq chonnaQmey. So it's little wonder we have conflicting information.
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