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Hrakka vs Hrakkar
ingsve:
--- Quote from: Hrakka on May 20, 2011, 01:33:20 am ---How would one go about getting this corrected? Also, it it easy to change ones' username?
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Well, we can ask David about it.
I think you should be able to switch your username in your profile settings.
ingsve:
David confirms that it should be hrakkar.
Hrakkar:
--- Quote from: ingsve on May 20, 2011, 04:12:30 am ---David confirms that it should be hrakkar.
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That was easy to fix. (I am assuming that this would syllabify as hrak-kar?
Thanks for asking DP about this.
ingsve:
--- Quote from: Hrakkar on May 21, 2011, 02:04:32 am ---
--- Quote from: ingsve on May 20, 2011, 04:12:30 am ---David confirms that it should be hrakkar.
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That was easy to fix. (I am assuming that this would syllabify as hrak-kar?
Thanks for asking DP about this.
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I would guess so depending on how you would pronounce that. I don't think you hear the /k/-sound twice as in a stutter. It's more like a long /k/-sound if that makes sense.
Qvaak:
--- Quote ---I don't think you hear the /k/-sound twice as in a stutter. It's more like a long /k/-sound if that makes sense.
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Yeah. We double consonants like p, k and t in Finnish (Finnish is very close to Estonian, which I think Peterson has mentioned as one of the inspirations) and it's likely that goes the same way in Dothraki. More than stutterlike real doubling it's just a very short pause and then the plosive sound, like hra'kar. Only not quite. Actually you close the air flow, then give a shortest pause and then release the plosive, so yeah, it's pretty accurately described as a long k-sound.
At least this is how I think I do it. I'm no phonologist and can not quickly find any source to corroborate my explanation.
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