[85962] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Thu Jun 25 08:57:27 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A436E11.3050302@trimboli.name>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:55:28 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 25 Jun 2009, at 13:31, David Trimboli wrote:
> Michael Everson wrote:
>> On 24 Jun 2009, at 19:26, David Trimboli wrote:
>>
>>> I encountered some transformation problems when I was working the
>>> bugs out of my MUSH regional speech commands, which let you type
>>> ta' Hol and you speak a regional accent.
>>>
>>> Qotmagh and taQ'ev were easy: the first just changes /b/ to /m/
>>> and / D/ to /N/; the second changes /b/ to /mb/ and /D/ to /ND/.
>>
>> Not reversible though.
>
> /N/ and /ND/ can be reversed, since /N/ is not a ta' Hol phoneme.
True (modulo case transformation!); I was overstating.
> The others aren't reversible, unless there's a complex trick
> examining the rest of the word that I haven't thought of.
I don't even think you could do it with a full lexicon.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
