tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 03 11:38:27 1996
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Re: Glottal stop ['] question(s)
> In other words, in English, the word "attitude" would be spelled
> in Klingon {'atItuD} because we ALWAYS start our open vowels
> with a glottal stop, just like Klingons do, except Klingons have
> a letter of the alphabet for it and English speakers don't.
We ALWAYS do, do we? I don't.
I would say that in a word which normally begins with a vowel, the glottal
stop is the sound produced when one is emphasizing the word.
'olIva'
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