[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: {-'e'} and {-bogh}

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> On Jan 21, 2016, at 2:01 PM, qov at kli.org wrote:
>> I would like that too, however I doubt anyone would understand me. I bet
>> my greek accent superimposed on Klingon, would really mess things up.
> 
> It will be glorious.  It is excellent to all different  accents speaking Klingon, to show what mistakes we are making.  Do not be afraid to speak up and tell people that they have a German or American accent in Klingon. We all want Klingon accents, but we end up with American ones because of who the dominant speakers are. it is very important to have different first languages among our speakers.

Actually, we’ve already heard Klingon spoken at a sprinting pace with a Greek accent, and it was remarkably challenging for several reasons:

1. Nick Nicholas spoke fast. Very fast. Incredibly fast. HewassoexcitedtohavepeoplehecouldspeakKlingontothatallhiswordsrantogether.

2. We were expecting him to have an Australian accent, because he is from Australia, and he speaks English with an Australian accent, but apparently, his first language was Greek, and when he learned Klingon, he learned it with his native Greek speaking mind instead of his Australian speaking mind.

3. Greek apparently doesn’t differentiate the vowel sounds of Klingon to as much of a degree that English does, so some of his different vowels sounded the same to us, especially at his incredibly fast speaking pace. Likely, another Greek speaker could have told the difference, but there weren’t any among us.

Nick Nicholas is the fellow who translated all the rhyming iambic pentameter sections of Hamlet (about 2/3 of the text) into Klingon… in rhyming iambic pentameter. He translated most of the Shakespeare sonnets into Klingon… in verse. And when he and I had an argument about his use of {-meH} in them, he decided that I was right, and went back and REWROTE MOST OF THEM. He didn’t rewrite the ones that didn’t use {-meH}.

So, yes. I’ve heard Klingon spoken with a Greek accent. I still have nightmares… In them, I stand, weeping, trying to find words in my dictionary fast enough, but falling farther and farther behind… Like a hobo, standing beside a speeding train that passes too quickly for me to catch a ride.


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