tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 30 00:03:15 2003
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RE: the glottal stop
Pas beaucoup de monde dira "t'as" parce que ca indiquera en anglais, <<(someone or something) has you.>> Mais, je m'accord avec les autre chose que vous avez dis. Aussi, ces mots sont une autre chanson. Si ca vous chante, nouse pouvons parler au sujer de ces mots. Ca vous tente? Autant que je sache, francais essaye arreter le <<glottal stop.>> Est-ce que vous parlez francais courrament? (Sorry, I can't figure out how to put in the special characters for the accent marks)
"Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Usually in French, words that start with H have a vowel that follows it.
>In that case, a lot of French uses an apostrophe (i.e. your example of
>l'heure). For those of you who don't know, French requires that
>apostrophes be used to prevent glottal stops. In French, everything must
>flow nice and smooth. You couldn't very well say "le heure" because the
>two vowel sounds cannot be pronounced next to each other. So, essentially,
>French tries to limit the number of glottal stops. But English turned
>French words, such as the word hockey, cannot have an apostrophe because
>they are not orginally French. In French, we say "le hockey" (-le okay-
>instead of -l'okay-).
Mais il y a aussi des mots qui ne sont pas d'origine anglaise qui a une 'h'
aspiree.
'ach "English" Hol mung ghajbe' "glottal stop" ghajbogh 'op mu'.
hache
haine
haricot
Il y a aussi des autres.
latlh je lutu'lu'.
>This glottal stop also occurs with everyday use of the verb avoir (to
>have). Tu as... You'd think in French they'd say "t'as" but instead they
>say -too ah-.
On devrais dir "tu as", mais beaucoup de monde dit "t'as". (beaucoup de
monde disent?)
chaq "tu as" lujatlhnIS, 'ach "t'as" jatlh ghov law'.
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