[769] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: `i` v. `I` and pIqaD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 6 01:32:13 1993
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From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 23:03:33 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9305052147.AA25122@ bush.cs.tamu.edu>; from "Erich Schneider" at
Erich Schneider says:
: 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'.
Whatever happened to ST's much-touted 'realism'?
: >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"?)
That's a REALLY good question.....
: 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).
Fascinating...I've never heard of any tera'ngan system like this!
: 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").
Sounds like Korean, where each syllabic symbol is built up from an initial, a
vowel, and an optional final, but the composite is considered one character.
: maHvaD jangghachHommeylIj tIghItlh.
:
: -QumpIn 'avrIn
:
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