tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 25 09:27:25 2003
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Re: Pronunciation
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:42:56 -0400
"Scott Willis" <[email protected]> wrote:
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%From: "Klingon Warrior"
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%Subject: Pronunciation
In these three languages, different speakers of
%the same language
%will pronounce a sound differently, due to differences in
%vocal apparati,
%nasal size and condition, etc, etc.
I think it's more psychological than due to actual
differences between a 'Japanese vocal tract' and a
'German' or 'English vocal tract'. I think it's more like
what you've been brought up with. It just takes loads of
practice. Believe me, I'm learning Gaelic, and the
phonetics of Gaelic are way more confusing - in my humble
opinion - than the phonetics of Klingon.
Native speakers
%rarely notice these
%differences probably because their brains have learned to
%adjust to the most
%common range of differences.
Copy that.
%Also, each phoneme in a language will have a different
%sound at the
%beginning, middle and end of a word. (I forget what these
%variations of the
%same sound are called. Morphemes?)
Allophones.
Has anything ever been written on Klingon allophones
(either canon or non-canon)?
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