[85830] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jun 23 19:50:33 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A414D64.6030504@trimboli.name>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:49:01 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:47, David Trimboli wrote:
> (I still yearn for better support for text figures on the Web.)
What, oldstyle numerals?
> They're not some pointless, arbitrary form that someone came up with
> one day.
No, they're not. And I remember reading TKD in 1985, noticing that
Okrand had used S and D just to try to impress on naïve English
speakers that the sounds weren't [s] and [d]. Useful at the time, but
I am not sure those conventions are good for the long term.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
