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Re: Letter cases in spelling; etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Apr 14 05:02:35 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 14 Apr 93 08:54:11 GMT
> From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
> [having two cases of letters] is not even a universal human trait; there
is, for instance, no upper or lower case in Hebrew.
I have seen a keyboard diagram of a Hebrew (Israeli practical rather than
biblical scholarly) typewriter, which used the uppercase and lowercase parts
of each letter key to produce two sizes of each letter. So it seems that the
need for a different type style for titles etc does creep in. I imagine that a
Klingon writing in the pIQaD alphabet, or any human writing in a caseless
spelling system like Chinese, would emphasize at need likely by writing in
larger characters - as the abovementioned Hebrew typewriter did, and likely
native Klingon pIQaD typewriters do. And the Roman alphabet equivalent of this
is uppercasing.
