[85842] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue Jun 23 23:36:24 2009
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:38 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 6/23/2009 18:30:48 Eastern Daylight Time,
david@trimboli.name writes:
> Michael, being a typographer, understands well the purpose of lower-case
> letters. They provide a break for the eye, and really do make text
> easier to read. (I still yearn for better support for text figures on
> the Web.) They're not some pointless, arbitrary form that someone came
> up with one day.
>
So many languages (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Sanskrit/Hindi)
have no native concept of letter case that this is highly dubious and
possibly irrelevant.
lay'tel SIvten
