[85831] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jun 23 19:50:47 2009
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:49:16 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <8E41DDD3-198E-47AF-894A-E52AE33F71EA@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Michael Everson wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2009, at 23:13, David Trimboli wrote:
>
>> Of course, after all this time the goofy capitalization of the
>> transcription system is one of the most recognized aspects of the
>> language.
>
> Really?
Oh, yes. I've often seen people mimicking Klingon by capitalizing
randomly, using lots of k's, and throwing apostrophes everywhere.
>> If we were to have a transcription system with case, it could be as
>> simple as this (showing the capital letters):
>>
>> A B CH D E GH H I J K L M N NG O P Q R S T TLH U V W Y '
>
> So you use K/k for q and Q/q for Q.
It was only an example, not a proposal.
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