tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 24 13:52:11 2003
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Re: New Member/Syll... correction
- From: Russ Perry Jr <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: New Member/Syll... correction
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:00:24 -0600
Quvar valer <[email protected]> wrote:
> ja' qeyS:
>>> the name Mara could become /mara-oy/ --> /maroy/ in fast
>>> speech perhaps. I don't know. It just seems more natural
>>> than inserting a glottal stop or a /gh/, although a /w/
>>> doesn't seem that weird.
But this is Klingon... Glottal stops seem pretty natural to
Klingons, seeing how many words include them, and explicitly,
unlike English.
> The glottal stop added between two vowels to seperate them can
> be seen in many languages: in German "Beamter" (official, officer)
> is pronounced *be'amter*, the Turkish word "saat" (hour) is
> pronounced *sa'at*, a dutch example could be "gevarieerd" (various)
> pronounced *gevari'eerd*, "and in English "radioactive" is
> pronounced *radio'active* (not *radiowactive*)
For me, I tend to feel the vowels slide into each other without a
real glottal stop; I guess it depends on how you define it... I
tend to think of the commonly given examples "bottle" and "ladder"
in fast speech, where I can actually "feel" the glottal stop, which
I don't feel when I say "radioactive". Hmm...
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