[85792] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jun 23 12:49:04 2009
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:47:44 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <82B3837A-E8F3-48CB-BB0B-67B1C3E71A32@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Michael Everson wrote:
> Well, yours might be a vote for the status quo -- but I'd like to know
> what Marc Okrand thinks, in particular about data integrity, sorting
> and searching and so on.
I know exactly what Marc Okrand thinks: the romanized transcription
system is inconvenient and inadequate, but we're stuck with it. (I
believe he has said as much before.) Marc has never been particularly
computer-savvy, so I doubt he's given it much thought. If you spoke to
him about it, he'd say yep, that's a problem, but there's not much he
can do about it.
Even if you hit upon a lovely transcription orthography, how will you
get Paramount to use it or license it whenever someone produces an
"official" product? (Consider, for instance, the Bird of Prey poster.)
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