[84926] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: idea for writing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Mon Jul 28 22:52:28 2008
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:52:18 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jul 26, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Sangqar wrote:
> Personally, I don't see the purpose in creating a writing system for
> Klingon. Inside the fiction, we know there is one - we just don't know
> the details. Outside the fiction, we know Okrand created it using the
> Latin alphabet.
I'm pretty sure he actually *created* it using IPA, then developed
the Romanized system we use so it could be written into the movie
script easily. The capital {I} we use today appears to be an
artifact of the IPA origins.
