tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 10 13:03:52 2015
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mongDech
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Oct 10, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tori Lucier Miller <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Anyone want to help the new girl out and give me some pronunciation help? :)</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The way we write Klingon is a completely phonetic representation of the sounds. As long as you recognize that the character combinations {ch}, {gh}, {ng}, and {tlh} are each considered single letters, every letter always has basically the same sound whenever it appears.</div><div><br></div><div>{mongDech} is six letters:</div><div>{m} sounds as you would expect, like in milk or home.</div><div>{o} is the "long o" of oat or smoke or throw.</div><div>{ng} is like the end of song or ring, but be careful not to add a hard "g" sound after it.</div><div>{D} is probably familiar to native English speakers as the stereotypical East Indian D as in New Delhi. It's a "retroflex" sound, meaning the tongue touches the roof of the mouth much farther back than the ridge behind the teeth.</div><div>{e} is a typical "short e" as in echo or pet.</div><div>{ch} is like chew or reach.</div><div><br></div><div>The proper pronunciation of Klingon is described at the beginning of Zthe Klingon Dictionary. Several web pages give a good overview as well, includin <span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="/about-klingon/sounds-of-klingon/";>/about-klingon/sounds-of-klingon/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>-- ghunchu'wI' </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span>Le <br><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Oct 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM, qurgh lungqIj <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, October 10, 2015</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Klingon word: mongDech</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Part of speech: noun</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Definition: collar</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Source: TKD (95 KE, 125 EK)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tlhingan-hol mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol";>http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Tlhingan-hol mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol";>http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>_______________________________________________
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