tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 28 23:23:35 2002
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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhatlh (n)
ja' slapdash <[email protected]>:
>Normally "Definition:" would be the English word that
>"Klingon word:" is associated with/equals. But since
>"tlhatlh" is a Klingon dish with no English equivalent,
>even English speakers would use the Klingong word --
>but, they would pronounce it in an English way, which
>sounds like "gladst".
KGT actually explains this odd discrepancy as a Klingon dialect. Some
speakers pronounce the {tlh} oddly (specifically the restauranteur on Deep
Space Nine, if I'm remembering correctly). The "gladst" pronunciation is a
Klingon one, not a Terran one.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh