On 6/28/2020 9:49 AM, De'vID wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 08:44, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de <mailto:levinius@gmx.de>> wrote:
Listen to the sounds on the Klingon CD. When Okrand speaks a syllable like {bom} it rhymes more "bomb" than it does with "bo-u-m" or "bone". {bot} does not rhyme with "boat".
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}).
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 *o* vowels in /Conversational/ and /Power Klingon./ Some of them are short, as in *SoH.* Some of them are long, as in *lenHom.* Some of them change: when he says *toDSaH,* he pronounces a short vowel; when he says the first syllable of that in isolation, *toD,* he uses a long vowel. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name