tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 07 13:03:32 1997
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Re: 2 more Okrandian backfits
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>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected] (Scott D. Randel)
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 1997 20:00:58 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>>ghItlh ghunchu'wI'
>>>And what's wrong with being associated with the Sakrej region, hmm?
>>
>>TKD page 11: "Those Klingons who do not speak the official dialect are
>>considered either stupid or subversive, and are usually forced to undertake
>>tasks that speakers of the official dialect find distasteful."
>
>After listening to TKW, I'm starting to wonder about the official
>dialect. Gowron, on the Klingon CD-ROM, seems to have the same accent
>as Worf (virtually no glottal stops, etc.). Perhaps with his rise to
>Chancellor, there is a new official dialect. Kahless is, after all,
>nothing more than a figurehead.
Um, don't confuse actors for characters. Remember that Okrand is a
linguist, who has made detailed studies of foreign languages and the sounds
they use, and thus is qualified to invent and use a language which doesn't
necessarily sound like English. Robert O'Reilly, however, is just some
schmoe of an actor who, to his credit, DOES put a fair amount of effort
into trying to get Klingon sounds right, but simply isn't very good at it
("kwahom" indeed. The only reason for the "kw" is because he saw the Q in
the Klingon, and that's the sound Q makes in English). I'm much more
inclined to trust Dr. Okrand's linguistic descriptions than the hurried
efforts of an actor whose interest is marginal at best in enunciating the
sounds so described.
In other words, I hate to break it to you, but the guy on the CD-ROM isn't
Gowron. He wasn't even born on another planet. And you probably know much
more about the Klingon language than he does.
~mark
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