tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 19 16:11:04 2002
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Re: Phonetic Translation
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Trimboli wrote:
> From: "Larry D. French Sr." <[email protected]>
> > With the help of my CO and DloraH, I got this verse
> > translated and attempted to phonetically spell it
> > out. My CO won't take No for an answer.
>
> Oh good grief. Klingon as we write it ***IS*** a phonetic spelling! Just
> tell him it *IS* spelled phonetically, then teach him what the letters stand
> for.
Yeah, Klingon is very much like German in that respect -- no fancy "silent
e's" or anything like that (don't get me started about French ;)
> How is "-meh" going to get him to pronounce /-meH/ correctly? Trust me,
> spell out the Klingon correctly, and it IS phonetic.
When I took German in High School, a lot of people had problems with that
"ch as in Bach" sound. A lot of people trying to pronounce "Bach" would
end up with "bahk" (more like the Klingon { baq }) My prof said that was
completely wrong, but that people could get by with using an "sh" sound if
necessary ("ish bean ine Berlinner" -- I am a doughnut ;) I'm not even
sure how I'd write that sound phonetically. :)
The nice thing is, in Klingon, /H/ is always pronounced the same. It's
just not necessarily a sound people make often, or are used to hearing...
...Paul
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