tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 12 18:36:14 1997
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RE: 2 consonants in a row
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: 2 consonants in a row
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 00:47:31 UT
jatlh qoror:
> In almost all Klingon, there are no two consonants in a row, with the
exception of "-rgh"
> and possibly "-y'" and -w'." I won't go into those two. In fact, in
transliteration one often
> goes out of one's way to separate them, usually putting "-I-" between them
[...]. But the > perceptive among you might note that it's apparently not
that their tongues aren't capable
> of that, because there are two exceptions to that rule. One is canonical,
the other I'm
> not not sure of. But they are both transliterations of -Terran words-. The
first is "janluq
> pIqarD" (SkyBox S25), and the other is from Hamlet, and I don't think it's
canonical:
> tranSmI'.
How can you have a correct Klingon pronunciation of "Jean-Luc Picard"? It's
an Earth name. The name on the SkyBox card is simply Okrand's best
transliteration into Klingon phonetics.
*Worf's* name is the one that is mispronounced by all of us. According to
wherever it is that we first see his name in Klingon (SkyBox card S8, I
think), it's pronounced {wo'rIv}. When we say "Worf," we're saying it wrong!
As far as Hamlet goes, it's not a canonical source. And I'll bet you'll find
other "doubled consonants" in it. Usually, these are because we're reading a
word allegedly borrowed from English.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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