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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/28/2020 9:49 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 08:44,
Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de"
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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" or
"bone".<br>
{bot} does not rhyme with "boat".<br>
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<div>I (re-)listened to Conversational Klingon, and when Okrand
says {lenHom} (near the end of the second track called "Klingon
cursing"), it sounds to me like it does rhyme with "home" or
"bone". He says something like "len-home" (but with a {H}).</div>
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<p>I find it difficult to distinguish between [o] and [oʊ]. The best
clue to the presence of [oʊ] is that the vowel is long. Okrand
uses a number of <b>o</b> vowels in <i>Conversational</i> and <i>Power
Klingon.</i> Some of them are short, as in <b>SoH.</b> Some of
them are long, as in <b>lenHom.</b> Some of them change: when he
says <b>toDSaH,</b> he pronounces a short vowel; when he says the
first syllable of that in isolation, <b>toD,</b> he uses a long
vowel.</p>
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