[85837] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DloraH)
Tue Jun 23 22:16:12 2009
From: "DloraH" <seruq@bellsouth.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:13:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <70AC58AF-8073-4AEF-BA65-3B31CD95A5E6@evertype.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> > If there is (which I doubt), it would have to use only the 26
> > letters of the English alphabet, possibly with the apostrophe, as is
> > the case now.
>
> Why?
For me it would be because that is what is on my keyboard.
> All of the characters use the Latin script.
>
> > Where's the "dotless question mark" key on a Latin keyboard?
>
> The glottal stop? On my keyboard I type shift-option-. and
> then space
> to get it. ʔʔʔʔ
What do you mean by "option"?
Shift-. gives me ?
> > Your examples are full of untypeable characters, and a few
> > unprintable ones.
>
> I typed nearly all of them with the Irish Extended keyboard
> that ships with Mac OS X.
Ah! I don't have an Irish Extanded keyboard.
I admit that sometimes Q and q are a problem. Car license plates are in upper-case only; but fortunately the one I went with doesn't use either Q or q.
Some of your characters didn't show up on my computer. On my PDA, those that do show up are completely different symbols.
If I made changes to the klingon writing, I would move the q to k.
DloraH
