tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 30 03:30:41 2005
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Re: Pronounciation of " HIDjolev "
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Pronounciation of " HIDjolev "
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:29:38 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ngabwI':
>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.
'e' vIHonbe'. jIHvaD qaS je wanI'vetlh'e'. Occasionally I even have to stop
myself stressing the {-(v)-oy} syllable because of this.
ghItlhpu' lay'tel SIvten:
>You'll only hear the difference when the two morphemes are spoken
>separately, i.e. with a pause between them. Otherwise they are the same
>sequence of sounds. The morpheme division is irrelevent.
I think you're taking ngabwI' a bit too literally when he says "hear".
What I think he means is that his brain (and mine, too, for that matter)
analyses the syllable structure of the word {vavoy} as {va-voy}, and that
the syllable division does not conform to the morphemic one. This is the
only instance in all of Klingon where the morpheme boundary and the syllable
boundary do not coincide.
Savan,
QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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