Worf's pronunciation of "weapons"
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You're bugged becuase Worf mispronounces the word differently than you mispronounce it?
Anyway, its a basic American accent, so it seems perfectly normal to me. Of course, it would make more sense if Rozhenkos' boy spoke with a Russian accent.
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The way Worf puts an "H" sound in "weapons" (like "wheapons") is not remotely normal for any part of America I've ever been in or seen on TV. 
I once read an interview where Dorn said he blew an audition by using "Worf voice" and having the casting director think he was insane. I wonder if he said "wheapons."
For all I know, however, this is common among Klingons who learn English. Klingon tends to hit sounds much harder.
I once read an interview where Dorn said he blew an audition by using "Worf voice" and having the casting director think he was insane. I wonder if he said "wheapons."For all I know, however, this is common among Klingons who learn English. Klingon tends to hit sounds much harder.
Never bothered me. There are a multiplicity of ways to pronounce all sorts of words in English; and just as many accents. Never even noticed it until it was pointed out in this thread.
Wouldn't that be a Belorussian accent?
Yes it does big me. I've I have only heard it pronounced that way by Worf, nowhere else.
Yes, I don't think it's in any American accent I've heard before. You might be right, Klingon does seem to have some hard accents.
And that could be the most likely explanation.
It still bugs me though.
Does anyone really put the "p" in the second syllable?
The "p" belongs in the first syllable.
WEHP-en.
WEHP-en.
Weird, I find it really hard to pronounce like that. To me it's WEH-pən.
ETA: Ok, I can pronounce it with the 'p' in the first syllable if I fake a southern accent. Otherwise it just feels/sounds horrible. My dictionary agrees with me that the 'p' belongs in the second syllable too...maybe it's a Canadian pronunciation thing.
ETA: Ok, I can pronounce it with the 'p' in the first syllable if I fake a southern accent. Otherwise it just feels/sounds horrible. My dictionary agrees with me that the 'p' belongs in the second syllable too...maybe it's a Canadian pronunciation thing.
How Worf pronounces a word?
Really?
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Yes it just bugs me. What's wrong with it bugging me?
Not always. Some accents aspirate the 'h' in 'whether', so that it sounds almost more like 'hwether'...à la Hank Hill on King of the Hill, if you're familiar with that show.
Worf tends to aspirate the word 'weapon' for some reason, adding that hard 'h' sound to it.
I don't know. I tried to find a British dictionary on line just to see if it was the same as Canada and couldn't.
The Oxford one didn't seem to offer pronunciations.
Can't say I ever noticed, but this discussion reminds me of this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik
I don't understand how that would change the pronunciation.
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