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`i` v. `I` and pIqaD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 5 18:36:21 1993
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From: erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider)
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Date: Wed, 5 May 93 16:47:13 CDT
In-Reply-To: Mark Reed's message of Wed, 5 May 1993 13:58:28 -0400 (EDT) <93050
ghitlhta' marqoS:
>I get the impression from Okrand that the PTB don't want a pIqaD that doesn't
>map to the stuff on the screen, so there's sort of a stalemate.
nuq 'oH "PTB"'e'.
>Okuda doesn't want an alphabet, or even a syllabic; he thinks that the
>Klingons , being completely alien to us, should have a completely
>alien writing system.
What would constitute a suitably alien writing system? (Of course, if
a human thinks it up, is it really "alien"?)
One thought I had today: have three distinct alphabets/syllabaries,
one for writing nouns, one for verbs, one for "leftovers". One could
also have special symbols for the noun suffixes, the verb affixes, and
various affixes for leftovers (like -DIch and -logh, used with
numbers).
Since three is an important number for Klingons, and most of the words
have the form CVC, perhaps one could take an approach like Korean
takes, and have "components" representing vowels and consonants which
are built up into syllabic characters. Each non-affix syllabary
character would then have three parts. (One could have a "null"
component for those rare syllables without three sounds, like the last
syllable in "jabbI'ID").
maHvaD jangghachHommeylIj tIghItlh.
-QumpIn 'avrIn
