[85861] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Wed Jun 24 04:45:02 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <bfa.42731355.3772fde4@wmconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:43:16 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 24 Jun 2009, at 04:56, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
>> I will ask you again, however, to look at the different options
>> posted, and indicate which look "better" and which look "worse".
>
>>
> From a beginner's point of view they would all look equally strange,
> I think.
But Standard Okrandian orthography looks strange to beginners when
they first begin (I remember it did in 1985).
> In fact, the further removed from the standard orthography, perhaps
> the better, since anything only slightly different from it looks
> like typos upon typos.
Interesting. Still I think some are more quickly accessible to fluent
readers of Klingon than others.
I should probably make the PDF.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
