On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 08:44, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 26.06.2020 um 23:00 schrieb SuStel:
> According to the Klingon Wiki,
>
> TKD describes the letter*o*as in "go or mosaic". This is confusing,
> because English speakers would do that with a diphthong, rhyming
> "go" with "glow" and saying "mosaic" like "mow-saic". This is not
> what Okrand intended. He just wanted to make clear that it's not o
> like in "cop" or "pot". The sound still is a clear "o" without a
> following u sound. The word*qepHom
> <http://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/QepHom>*should NOT rhyme with "home".
>[...]

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}).

De'vID