[85860] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Wed Jun 24 04:42:07 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <c87.52505905.3772fd18@wmconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:40:39 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 24 Jun 2009, at 04:52, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
>> 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.
I was being ironic.
> Because they are different phonemes and not allophones.
Yet you said that the distinction is trivial, that you can read a text
which does not make the distinction very easily. In which case, why
bother to distinguish them, if it's more or less optional?
I also do not think it is optional, which is why I think Klingon would
benefit from a spelling reform.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
