[1144] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: HoS voDleH jIH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 1 12:37:43 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
k)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 19:45:07 EDT
In-Reply-To: <m0oAMUl-00012CC@snark.thyrsus.com>; from "John Cowan" at Jun 28,
93 12:55 pm
John Cowan says:
[...]
: Sidenote: My favorite terangan script is old Mongolian, which is a top-to-
: bottom left-to-right script derived from Arabic. Naturally, Arabic is
: right-to-left top-to-bottom, but at some point, Mongolian scribes decided
: that writing vertically, a la Chinese, was niftier. So they just rotated
: the paper 90 degrees to produce a vertical cursive script.
Mongolian is one of the most interesting tera'ngan (remember the apostrophe!)
scripts, in part because its columns move from left to right, whereas all the
other vertically-written tera'ngan Holmey I can think of (Chinese included)
march their columns across the page from left to right. It's also one of the
most exceedingly beautiful scripts I know of -- it looks like it was designed
by J. R. R. Tolkien.
: --
: John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan
: e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
Qapla',
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