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Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jun 23 19:13:37 2009

From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <d34.4e6adc88.3772a161@wmconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:12:26 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:21, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:

> Changing normal Klingon to all upper or all lowercase does not make  
> a text unreadable. Ambiguity is introduced, but it's trivial.  There  
> are very few words that are distinguished by "q" vs. "Q".  These are  
> resolved by context. So this "problem" isn't really a problem.

Why bother to make the distinction at all, then?

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/





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