[85903] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Wed Jun 24 11:15:01 2009
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:10:47 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 6/24/2009 04:42:26 Eastern Daylight Time,
everson@evertype.com writes:
> 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.
>
If an English text with upper and lowercase is made all upper or all
lowercase, then information is lost which only *may* be partially recoverable
based on rules of English requiring certain positions and kinds of words be
capitalized. Any nonstandard use of capitalization is lost.
The distinction between the letters <q> and <Q> is not trivial. Recovering
them from a modified text is usually not hard, because they can be
recovered from a knowledge of Klingon. For people who don't know Klingon, it's a
lot harder.
lay'tel SIvten
