[85882] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Jun 24 07:55:49 2009
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:53:45 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <9735E7C0-9C05-422B-BDCF-7D9885C9D233@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Michael Everson wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2009, at 12:05, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>
>> Your capitalization of that last name as 'Atrom suggests that your
>> understanding of Klingon orthography is faulty.
>
> I don't believe that your assessment is correct. In most orthographies
> which use an apostrophe as a glottal stop, it is the following letter
> which cases when capitalization is applied. A description of an
> analogous situation (though the character representing the glottal is
> not the apostrophe) can be seen at http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2962.pdf
>
> Of course one could devise a big fat capital apostrophe, but that
> would be a new character that would have to be added to the standard.
Nonono. We already have a capital apostrophe. What we need is a
LOWER-CASE apostrophe!
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