tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 23 13:27:06 1994
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Re: KLBC: jItagh
- From: Igor Nekyha <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: jItagh
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 16:43:45 GMT
>From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 12:28:08 -0400
>>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 17:02:50 EDT
>
>>According to Craig Altenburg:
>
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>>> * How are to (')s in a row pronounced. (e.g qama''e')
>
>>You might ask how two "t"s are pronounced in "splatter". Like
>>any other consonant, when it is doubled, it is usually
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>I'd have to agree withyou. Okrand pronounces many doubled consonants as
>one in the tapes consistently, including "'".
>
I was listening to the Conversational Klingon tape yesterday. Its quite
difficult to hear some of the sounds such as the "ng" sound in words like
"tera'ngan". I listened to the word several times and it still sounded more
like "gn" or even "kn" than "ng". Is it just my ears or is it actually
pronounced like that?
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EEG