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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: veSDuj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sat Oct 17 13:58:20 2015
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:58:16 +0200
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Am 17.10.2015 um 19:41 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
> > Klingon was intended as a spoken (not written) language.
> hmm.. this raised another question. If Okrand did not intend Klingon to
> be a written language,has he ever said which pIqaD he considers canon ?
No. TKD (The Klingon dictionary) simply says that pIqaD "is not yet well
understood".
> As i understand there are at least two versions/types of pIqaD,and i
> think i read somewhere,that noone knows the creator of pIqaD. Has Okrand
> ever commented on any of these ?
That depends on what you see as "versions of pIqaD".
In a thesis written by Yens Wahlgren ("Klingon as Linguistic Capital"),
Marc Okrand commented pIqaD in this way:
The mapping is very cleverly done... I think it is great, it makes it so
you can write the language... I wish I could read it, when I get
something written in pIqaD I'm able to very slowly figure it out... I am
glad someone really is doing it and has decided that it is an alphabet
and not a syllabary. Now we know, cause Michael Okuda and I didn't know
that.
At the end, there are two ways to regard pIqaD:
a) We don't know how klingons write, so live with it.
b) Somebody has invented a set of letters which are quite useful because
they match the letters, and most klingonists have agreed to use this one.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/pIqaD
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