tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 23 14:34:15 2001
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RE: Gutturals (was Re: qung "pun")
- From: "Trimboli, David" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Gutturals (was Re: qung "pun")
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:32:45 -0400
Well, correctly pronouncable for English-speakers, while being as
alien-sounding as possible.
SuStel
Stardate 1560.0
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Gutturals (was Re: qung "pun")
>I don't think it was a mistake, so much as a design necessity. He
carefully
>devised Klingon to be correctly pronouncable by English-native actors
>(wearing prosthetic teeth).
If he used THAT as a design criterion for Klingon, he ought to work for
"machtun."
--Andrew