18 Jun
2018
18 Jun
'18
9:52 a.m.
On 6/18/2018 6:15 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
Am 18.06.2018 um 08:41 schrieb Alan Anderson:
In the Morskan dialect, trailing {tlh} sounds like “ts”,
Yes, indeed. So probably the computer correctly interpreted the words and recognized the accent/dialect of the speaker. And the computer did not add the missing -'e' bec ause it was not spoken, of course.
Then why did the computer display the unpronounced *H*? We know Okrand intended the Morskan to speak with a dialect; I don't know if we know that he intended every aspect of the actor's pronunciation. Maybe the dropped *-'e'* was intentional, but the pronunciation of *tlh* and dropping of final *H* was not. Or some combination of that. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name