[85817] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jun 23 17:39:20 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6A4BA81897A@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:37:34 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 23 Jun 2009, at 20:42, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Russ is correct. U, mb, N, ND, ts and ghl are not new letters for
> standard {ta' Hol}, but are merely ad hoc transcriptions used by
> "Federation linguists" to transcribe sub-standard and regional
> Klingon speech.
Standard fare for dialect transcription, though. Same thing happens in
Hindi.
> Note too that for three of these, Okrand continued his practice of
> using capital letters to mark unusual/unexpected pronunciations (cf.
> D, I, Q and S which are not pronounced in {ta' Hol} as the
> corresponding letters are in Federation Standard (i.e. [American]
> English).
Yes, but again, he was working within his system, which has
disadvantages in terms of data processing (certainly) as well as
aesthetics (arguably).
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
