[441] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: pIqaD issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 8 13:37:26 1993
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From: Godfrey de Shipbrook <smylex!jlee@uunet.UU.NET>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 08:09:09 EST
lagrone@flopn3.csc.ti.com writes:
>
>>If one assumes that the Klingon empire and culture is as old as or
>>even older than human/federation, AND one assumes that there are
>>many many individual planets in the empire, it could follow that a
>>number of different pIqaD could develop.
>
> Larry, this sounds both workable and reasonable to me! I'm no
> linguist and I prefer the simpler dialect (of my planet <grin>).
Then again, it's not completely impossible that the pIqaD is wholly
or partially artificial, such as Cyrillic is.
(as to dropping the upper-case I, D, & S, and the replacement of H and Q
with kh and qh, I for one would prefer not to; I, too, have become used
to the look of the upper-case transliterated letters, and find it easier
to read with Okrand's mixed-case.
Except when something's printed out in a font which lacks serifs on both
upper-case I and lower-case l; it's sort of like trying to read the word
`minimum' written in a textura quadrata hand...
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