tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 30 11:47:03 1995

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Re: Morphology




This Christian Matzke person wrote...

> On 29 Oct 95 at 20:00, Alan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I beg to differ.  I have no problem pronouncing {puq oy} with a small pause
> > before the second syllable, and no stop (glottal or otherwise) at its start.
> > When I remove the pause, I can pronounce it either {pu-qoy} or {puq-oy}.  I
> > think {pu-qoy} sounds completely wrong.
> 
> I'm curious,
>    Do you (or others) pronounce Qapla' as Qa-pla' or Qap-la' (where 
> the first runs the p and l together)? How about puqloD, puq-loD 
> (clearly the correct pronunciation) or pu-qloD (maybe only common 
> here in the boondocks...)? 
>             batlh Qapla' je,
>                         maSqa' 
> 

Speaking only for myself here, I pronounce them....
Qa-pla'
puq-loD

Christian Nielsen


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