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Re: Pronounciation of " HIDjolev "

ngabwI' ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Newton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Pronounciation of " HIDjolev "


> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:44:11 -0600, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I would divide it as {HID-jo-lev} as a syllable may end in a vowel, but 
>> it
>> may never begin with one (except for the suffix {-oy}).
>
> I thought {SoSoy} would be syllabified {So.Soy}... are you saying that
> not only does {-oy} start with a vowel, it remains a separate syllable
> and doesn't "steal" the previous consonant? That is, the word is
> pronounced {SoS.oy}?
> -- 
> Philip Newton <[email protected]>
> HovpoH 3413.85

I, *personally*, have a tendency to pronounce it So-Soy (force of habit with 
CVCVC groupings), and AFAIK, the only use of this suffix in spoken canon is 
from STVI, when Azetbur says {vavoy}. ( It's in the scene where all the 
Klingons and the Enterprise crew are seated for a nice meal and some Romulan 
Ale.) In this scene, I hear {va-voy}, as a normal CVCVC, but that may be my 
brain forcing what I actually hear to conform with what I *think* I *should* 
hear.

I would be very much interested to know if others hear the same thing, and 
if they don't, to find out what they hear.

--ngabwI'
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