On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 08:44, Lieven L. Litaer <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.

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