[85832] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jun 23 20:04:24 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A4169FC.0@trimboli.name>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:02:38 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 24 Jun 2009, at 00:49, David Trimboli wrote:
> Oh, yes. I've often seen people mimicking Klingon by capitalizing
> randomly, using lots of k's, and throwing apostrophes everywhere.
That's a little hilarious, since Klingon uses no k's.
>>> 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.
It was a description of what I saw you doing, not a judgement on
anything else.
ram QaQ
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/