[Tlhingan-hol] qepHom 2015 with Marc Okrand
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Sat Mar 28 17:28:31 PDT 2015
On 3/28/2015 5:51 PM, Lieven wrote:
> 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.
>
> TKD does not say anything about a diphthong here, or a sound like [oʊ].
> The only written description is "o as in english mosaic".
"No words in Klingon have ow or uw. If they did, they would be
indistinguishable from words ending in o and u, respectively."
TKD doesn't say anything about a diphthong or a sound like /oʊ/, because
Okrand avoids jargon. But I didn't say TKD said those things; I said it
says {o} sounds like {ow}, and I have quoted the passage above. I then
gave the IPA representation of {o}, which IS a diphthong.
{o} is a diphthong, at least when ending a syllable.
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SuStel
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