Re: Klingon Script

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From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Klingon Script


> Joe wrote:
> <snipped stuff abt ST>
>
> >No, the Actor is from England: Leicester, in fact.  It's very RP, but
it's
> >quite British.   Bashir is also English (The actor is of Arabian
descent).
> >
> You're joking!? Maybe it's just all the other American accents around! I
> don't normally like RP; too, well, pommy for me.
>
> >I've heard of English and Australian being mixed up, but English and
> >Bostonian? ;-)
> >
> >
> Mixing up English and Australian is a crime worthy of death; mixing up
> Aussie and Kiwi is even worse a sin. Aussies sound nothung like Kiwis
> unliss you're en Amurucan tryung to portray a fake Aussie end/or Kiwi
> eccint, un whuch case theer usn't a dufference. (See, just take a look
> at the difference... Writing in Kiwi is fun.)
>
> 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?
Well, English people can't tell the difference either.   Kiwi seems to be
Aussie shifted upwards, though.