tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 28 12:03:50 1996
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Re: 'oy''a'
On Mon, 27 May 1996, Alan Anderson wrote:
> "Is this proper" for what? I can translate it two ways:
> as a question "does it hurt?" or as a noun "great pain".
>
> And it's pronounced exactly as it is spelled. No, I'm not being
> facetious. TKD section 1 describes pronunciation, and there's a
> good description with audio samples on the KLI web site at the
> following URL:
>
> http://www.kli.org/kli/sounds.html
>
> I guess that double <''> in the middle is worth asking about; in
> fact, there was a discussion about pronouncing paired stops here
> a while ago. Some of us pronounce them with a slight voicing in
> between them, others simply prolong a pause between them. You'd
> better join us at qep'a' wejDIch and listen for yourself!
>
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
>
>
>
also how is a ' in the begining of a word pronounced? That is not
covered in TKD.
Scott