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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/2018 11:22 AM, Daniel Dadap
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:C48557D7-9BC5-4B51-BF53-2AD2C9C7E6CE@dadap.net">I was
listening to “The Klingon Way” as narrated by Michael Dorn and
Roxann Biggs-Dawson, and couldn’t help but notice that it sounds
like B’Elanna almost always (but not totally consistently)
pronounces the {qaghwI'} as [t]. Perhaps [t] as an allophone of
either /t/ or /<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255,
0);">ʔ/ may have been a feature of Miral’s dialect? Or is it an
idiosyncrasy particular to B'elanna?</span>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I
like thinking it’s dialect, since “dialect” is usually my
headcanon for why Klingon given names often don’t make
phonological sense in {ta' Hol}. Either that, or Federation
Xenolinguists employ transliterations we don’t understand, or
they’re just really bad at transliteration. It doesn’t match
the description of any of the dialects listed at </span><a
href="http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Dialect"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Dialect</a>,
but does anyone know of other instances where a speaker
semi-consistently pronounces {qaghwI'} as [t]?</div>
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<p>Dorn and Dawson had only some audio recordings of Okrand and, I
think, a brief explanation of Klingon phonology when they recorded
those. I chalk it up to actors not being given enough direction; I
don't have my head buried so deeply in <i>Star Trek</i> fandom I
can't just accept a flawed production as being flawed.</p>
<p>That said, we really know only a tiny bit about "the fiction of
Klingon conformity." How many planets, with how many districts,
and how many cities, are there in the Empire? We don't know. We
don't know how well a half-Klingon who doesn't really like being
Klingon actually speaks Klingon. There is just so much we don't
know, there's really little point in trying to discern the reason
for an aberration. It could be anything.<br>
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