tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 02 10:10:55 2005

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "

Lieven L. Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
• Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:13:27 +0100
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• Organization: qepHom.de
• References: <[email protected]>
• User-agent: Opera7.11/Win32 M2 build 2887

Am Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:05:11 EST hat <[email protected]> 
geschrieben:

> So I think {Qap-la'} is pronounced differently from {Qa-pla'}.
I agree.
And I guess terrans tend to misprounounce it because they are not used to 
have a pause between p and l. For instance, "deep lawyers" might sound like 
"deployers".

> other hand, since Klingon  has no initial consonant clusters, there's no 
> way to tell what {Qa-pla'} might sound like when spoken by a native 
> Klingon.

A klingon would say /Qa-pala/ or so, adding a vowel somewhere.
{pla} is as difficult for a klingon as is {mwpa} for you.

Quvar.

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
    • From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>

• References:
  • Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
    • From: [email protected]

• Prev by Date: Re: HolQeD chu' Hevlu''a'?
• Next by Date: Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
• Previous by thread: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
• Next by thread: Re: Pronounciation of " Qapla' "
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level