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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/27/2020 2:44 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:12e34ebf-73f1-fe15-772c-26c6d9db31c7@gmx.de">(All of
this is very hard to describe using written words only, and many
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people even speak differently depending on their dialect.)
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Listen to the sounds on the Klingon CD. When Okrand speaks a
syllable
<br>
like {bom} it rhymes more "bomb" than it does with "bo-u-m"</blockquote>
<p>As an example of dialectical differences, no American English
accent rhymes <i>bomb</i> with Klingon <b>bom.</b> <i>Bomb</i>
has the same vowel as <i>father.</i></p>
<p>I think the solution here may be that it's not that every Klingon
<b>o</b> is a diphthong, just the syllable-final ones. The vowel
in <b>gho</b> is a diphthong, identical to <b>ghow;</b> but the
vowel in <b>ghop</b> is not a diphthong, and it doesn't sound
like <b>ghowp.</b> Likewise with <b>u:</b> <b>ghu</b> sounds
like <b>ghuw; ghup</b> does not sound like <b>ghuwp.</b></p>
<p>This would allow what Okrand told you to be correct, with the
exception of the syllable-final vowels described in the
dictionary, an exception he wasn't addressing with you.<br>
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