[543] in tlhIngan-Hol
Letter cases in spelling; etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 13 14:43:43 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 13:21:23 EST
You will probably receive a lot of answers about most of your
questions, so I will just reply to one part of your last point:
digraphs (trigraphs) in respelling.
You can't change tlh to tl because t and l can occur in sequence
between syllables, and there would be no way to tell V(tlh)V from
V(t)(l)V (where V stands for a vowel). Similarly for kh, if
you're using k for something and h for something else (I don't
remember if you are).
A person who runs a part of a BBS that I use -- "Dr. Whom,
consulting linguist, grammarian, orthoepist, and philological
busybody" -- used a modified spelling like yours in bringing a
Klingon character in. His method was like this:
Q -> qh
H -> kh
S -> s
D -> d
I -> i
Then he used capitals as in English, for names,
sentence-beginnings, and shouts. There was no ambiguity.
I still use that transcription with mundanes, but in an
all-Klingonist environment I have become convinced of the value
of sticking with the established standard. (I am myself a
linguist: Holtej jIH.)
I have some neat minimal pairs somewhere for t+l vs. tlh, but I
can't find them now.
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
