[85913] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: pIqaD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Wed Jun 24 12:06:50 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <758454.39924.qm@web80506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:04:26 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 24 Jun 2009, at 16:27, Russ Perry, Jr. wrote:
> Not to spark a whole new debate, but...
>
> On Wed, 6/24/09, Michael Roney, Jr. <nahqun@gmail.com> wrote:
>> q - k
>> Q - q
>> tlh - x
>
> I wonder why the originators of this mapping didn't do this instead:
>
> q - q
> Q - x
> tlh - k
That's a lot nicer, I think.
> ...as it leaves "q" alone, and makes "tlhIngan" closer to "klingon".
> Then only "x" and "f" for "ng" seem particularly odd given the
> Okrandian system (i.e. ch - c, gh - g, S - s, etc, mappings read
> pretty straightforwardly).
"f" for "ng" isn't so strange as it is next to "g".
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
