[84480] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue Apr 22 22:06:20 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:05:11 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 4/22/2008 20:48:46 PM Central Daylight Time,
doq@embarqmail.com writes:
> Romanized tlhIngan Hol is not the written language of Klingons. It is
> a phonetic notation of what a Klingon says out loud.
I hadn't realized this, but consulting TKG seems to bear it out.
I'd always thought that our current transcription system was a
*transliteration* system, with a more or less one-for-one mapping between it and {pIqaD}. I
see now that's not true.
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