[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tlhorghHa'
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Mon May 12 12:02:42 PDT 2014
On 5/12/2014 2:50 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Steven Boozer:
> AFAIK the actors always pronounced it with a /g/ - i.e. /gakh/
In "A Matter of Honor," which is the episode that introduces the stuff,
Riker first pronounces it /gahg/ (rhymes with "frog"), and Pulaski
repeats him in astonishment and pronounces it /gakh/ (rhymes with {ghaH}).
I always find it amusing when two actors don't agree on a pronunciation
and when one is supposed to be repeating the words of the other and says
it differently. Clearly they had looked up the word {ghagh}. Okrand
later codified the /gakh/ pronunciation with {qagh}.
Anyway, the episode is all about how the peoples of the Federation know
so little about the Klingons. Riker doesn't know qagh is supposed to be
eaten live, and even later he eats live qagh with a fork—the business
about Klingons eating with their hands hadn't been invented yet, and
this is probably why Okrand told us about puq chonnaQmey. So it's little
wonder we have conflicting information.
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