[Tlhingan-hol] leSSov

[SuStel]

On 10/25/2015 10:28 AM, qunnoQ HoD wrote:
> that aside,what is the meaning/purpose of the double <<S>> ? does this
> change something as far as the pronunciation is concerned ?

 From KLINGON FOR THE GALACTIC TRAVELER, 138–139:

First of all, some younger speakers tend to pronounce doubled consonants 
as if they were single, while older speakers pretty much maintain the 
distinction between single and doubled consonants. For example, in the 
word {qettaH} ("He/she keeps on running"; {qet}, "run, jog," plus 
{-taH}, "continuous"), an older Klingon would either pronounce each {t} 
distinctly, releasing the first one with a puff of air before 
articulating the second, or else he or she would hold the {t} just a bit 
before releasing it, so that the time taken up would be about the same 
as if each {t} were articulated separately. A younger speaker, on the 
other hand, may pronounce the word as if it were {qetaH}, though with 
the stress remaining on the first syllable as it is in {qettaH}. 
Similarly, an older speaker would probably maintain the {mm} in {bommey} 
("songs"; {bom}, "song," plus {-mey}, plural indicator) by either 
pronouncing each {m} distinctly or, more likely in this case, prolonging 
the {m}; some younger speakers (though a smaller number than in the case 
of {tt}) might say {bomey}, again with stress remaining on the first 
syllable. Only in the case of {''} (as in {pa''a'} ["big room"]: {pa'}, 
"room", plus {-'a'}, an augmentative) is there a tendency in both groups 
to reduce the {''} to a single {'}, though {''} (a somewhat prolonged 
gap between the preceding and following {a}) is hardly unknown or 
archaic-sounding. The reduction of doubled consonants to single follows 
a clear pattern. Those most likely to be reduced are {pp}, {tt}, and, as 
noted above, least likely to be reduced are {ll}, {mm}, {nn}, {ngng}, 
{w}, {ww}, and {yy}.

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