[85845] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue Jun 23 23:53:34 2009
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:52:56 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 19:13:52 Eastern Daylight Time,
everson@evertype.com writes:
> On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:21, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > Changing normal Klingon to all upper or all lowercase does not make
> > a text unreadable. Ambiguity is introduced, but it's trivial. There
> > are very few words that are distinguished by "q" vs. "Q". These are
> > resolved by context. So this "problem" isn't really a problem.
>
> Why bother to make the distinction at all, then?
>
This seems to be so obvious I can't believe you asked it.
Because they are different phonemes and not allophones.
lay'tel SIvten
