tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 07 17:35:36 1997
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Re: Pronunciation
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>Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 10:39:02 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>[email protected] on behalf of Duncan Barrett wrote:
>> How do you pronounce the double glottal stop in words like yIja''egh (TKD,
>> p. 35)?
>>
>> This question may sound a bit stupid but then so does pronouncing two ' s
>> in a row (to me).
>
>It's not a stupid question. It has come up before.
>
>Okrand seems to pronounce doubled consonants a little longer than a single
>consonant. You say {yIja'---} hold it ever so slightly, and then continue
>{---'egh}. There should be no echo of the previous vowel as you would find at
>the end of a word.
>
>No, you don't say the consonant twice.
I remember we argued about this on the list (more heat than light) from
time to time. DOES Okrand really hold his consonants in general? (Note
that a doubled ' in yIja''egh raises exactly the same questions as the
doubled t in yIttaH. Do we hold the t? Pronounce it as one? Pronounce it
twice?) I am not completely sure I hold stops when they're doubled. I
probably do a little. I think I do hold continuants like S and H and gh
when they're doubled, like in baHHa'. Oddly, though, I definitely double
affricates by truly pronouncing them twice. Letters like ch and j and even
Q get *two* releases when I say them doubled, like in ghIjjaj or bachchu'
or SaQQo'. Am I "right"? I don't know. I bet not all Klingons have
exactly the same speech style, any more than all Humans have. Okrand seems
to like my pronunciation; it suits me.
~mark
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