tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 24 18:51:20 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 18:59:31 -0600
Quvar valer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Russ Perry Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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...
> Define what? Glottal stop? That's a stop of breath in your throat
Right... That's what I mean -- it doesn't feel like the breath is
stopping when I say "radioactive".
> Okrands example is "Uh-uh" for "no".
Right -- and that I definitely feel.
>> tend to think of the commonly given examples "bottle" and "ladder"
> I do not understand this example. Do you mean *bo'tel* for "bottle"?
More like *bo'el*, though few people pronounce it THAT hard.
> Okay, maybe this was not a best example, this word can sound like
> "radiowactive". The glottal stop between the two word is much
> stronger in German.
Funny, I can see "beamter" both ways, though if I'm trying to fake a
German accent, there's a definite feeling of stoppage, but I can
"english it up" without too.
I guess my point was that the glottal stops -- explicitly written and
possibly quite forcefully pronounced -- is one of the things that
makes Klingon a bit alien. I doubt a Klingon would slide vowels as I
feel myself doing in "radioactive"...
Heh, of course, that doesn't lead to any kind of thoughts regarding
*maraoy* vs *mara'oy* vs *maroy* etc, does it?
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