[Tlhingan-hol] qepHom 2015 with Marc Okrand

[Lieven]

Am 28.03.2015 um 14:30 schrieb SuStel:
> It really doesn't. As described in THE KLINGON DICTIONARY, {o} sounds
> the same as {ow}, or /oʊ/, a diphthong.

Most of the time I agree with you, but not here.

TKD does not say anything about a diphthong here, or a sound like [oʊ]. 
The only written description is "o as in english mosaic". When editing 
the german Klingon dictionary, I talked to Okrand, and he said this was 
maybe a bad example, because few people say [mow-zay-eek] instead of 
[mo-za-eek].

This example only intended to make clear it's the [o] as in "cop", so 
the word {Sop} should not rhyme with "shop". Say {bom} as [bom], not [boʊm].

PS: Even Okrand sometimes did not follow his own rules, for instance on 
one of the tapes he says {SoH} like [SɔX] instead of [SoX]. (But he 
still never said [SoʊX]).

Sorry for nitpicking, but this is an important detail.

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Lieven L. Litaer
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