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[–] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Does it have a grammatical or phonetic function?

The Babel Fish kinda screwed us out of some linguistic richness.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Depends? Some of them seem to indicate a proper glottal stop. Some others are a reminder to English speakers not to let a half-syllable schwa or other vowel intrude on an unfamiliar consonant cluster, but characters/actors kinda do what they want. Some of them just seem to be there for looks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    An apostrophe in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (not technically an actual apostrophe, but an ʻokina UTF-8 +02BB) indicates a glottal stop, which is fun.

    I suppose we can pretend that Klingons and Vulcans have regional dialects instead of guest actors who aren't conlang linguists! Which raises the question: have we ever met a Klingon hillbilly?

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