Re: Klingon Script

On 07/06 11:55  Tristan wrote:

> And now on to a different tangent: when saying that in my fake Kiwi
> accent, it was said with glottal stops instead of linking R's. That's
> not a Kiwi thing, is it? It's more South African, isn't it?
>
I'm not certain what you mean.  Only neo-nazi punk skinhead wannabes
glottalise.  Our alveolar stops tend to affricate or flap.  Intervocalic
r between breaks is very productive in NZEng (law-r-and order).  Take
your pick.

- andrew.
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