[85864] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Wed Jun 24 04:56:00 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <c68.4e6c2323.37730072@wmconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:54:25 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 24 Jun 2009, at 05:07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/23/2009 21:00:22 Eastern Daylight Time,
> brent.of.all.people@gmail.com writes:
>
>> New speakers trained in any new romanization would be unable to read
>> the classic texts, such as Hamlet and ghIlghameS, unless they learn
>> the old romanization, which defeats the purpose of introducing the
>> new
>> system in the first place.
>
> I doubt this would be a problem. Lots of languages have had
> spelling or other reforms, and the younger speakers don't seem to
> have much trouble with reading the older forms. There's Chinese,
> Russian, German, Dutch, Irish, Spanish - just for quick examples.
Actually the Irish spelling reform was massive. Not only was the font
changed from Gaelic to Roman, but suffixes like -ughadh were
simplified to -ú.
> It would be a difference between one era of Klingon and another, but
> I don't think it would be a real obstacle, especially since no
> information would be lost in the new orthography.
I agree.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
