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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/28/2020 7:35 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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The only thing you haven’t addressed is why there doesn’t seem to
be an implied {w} in the {o} sound in all the recordings of Okrand
pronouncing words like {Qo’noS}, or any other word that includes
{o},</blockquote>
<p>I did address it. I speculated that only words that actually end
in <b>o</b> use a diphthong. That excludes words like <b>Qo'noS.</b><br>
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cite="mid:F4EB274B-F55F-4974-BFE6-E34CC83A7FBB@mac.com">You
brought up the example of {gho-} as a syllable that doesn’t follow
the {o} with a consonant,</blockquote>
<p>No, I brought up the <i>word</i> <b>gho</b> as an example of a
word that ends in <b>o.</b> If it's actually about ending words
with <b>o,</b> then the prefix <b>gho-</b> will never qualify
for a diphthong, because it never ends a word.<br>
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cite="mid:F4EB274B-F55F-4974-BFE6-E34CC83A7FBB@mac.com">So, no,
you didn’t explicitly say that Okrand’s verbal description applied
to only {gho-}. You said that maybe it only applies to syllables
ending in {o}, and the only example that I know of is {gho-}, so
that does logically follow that he’d be giving that description of
how {o} is pronounced in {gho-}, while not giving an accurate
description of the {o} sound in any other syllable in the
vocabulary.<br>
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<p>I am not responsible for your inability to think of other
syllables ending in <b>o.</b> I can assure you that I had several
of those other words in mind too. I just picked one to make an
example.</p>
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