<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 23:00, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
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    <p>According to the Klingon Wiki,</p>
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      <p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">TKD describes the letter<span> </span></span><strong style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">o</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>as in "go or mosaic". This is
          confusing, because English speakers would do that with a
          diphthong, rhyming "go" with "glow" and saying "mosaic" like
          "mow-saic". This is not what Okrand intended. He just wanted
          to make clear that it's not o like in "cop" or "pot". The
          sound still is a clear "o" without a following u sound. The
          word<span> </span></span><strong style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="http://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/QepHom" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">qepHom</a></strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif;font-size:16.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>should NOT rhyme with "home".</span></p>
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    <p>ORLY? Where does this revelation come from? TKD says that <b>o</b>
      sounds exactly the same as <b>ow</b> — meaning it's a diphthong
      that sounds exactly the same as American English <i>go.</i><br>
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    <pre cols="72"></pre></div></blockquote></div>Since this is a problem with the Klingon Wiki, maybe discuss it on that article's "talk" page?<div><br></div><div>It's the link that says "Discuss this topic" on the left: <a href="http://klingon.wiki/En/Pronunciation">http://klingon.wiki/En/Pronunciation</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>