[Tlhingan-hol] Canon: Associate Producer

[Lieven]

I wrote:
> Because in Klingon, no word starts with a vowel. Even from a linguistic
> view, in most languages, words woth vowels start with a glottal stop.
> Try saying "I ate eight egg" without the stop. I will sound like
> "hi-yate-tate-hags".

Am 22.09.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Anthony Appleyard:
> In my pronunciation of English (I am in England), the separator in "I-ate-eight-eggs" is a slight hesitation, and not a true glottal stop with closure of the glottis.

This may be correct from a linguistic point of view, but my explanation 
is the very closest approachment I can get to explain this to a 
non-linguist, which are most of the Klingon students.

It's also possible that my example does not work exactly in english as 
it does in German though.

-- 
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
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