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Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Tue Jul 7 10:31:16 2009

In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6A4BBB52B43@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:28:11 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Steven Boozer<sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> FYI:  The version of pIqaD used on the SkyBox cards is discussed at http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Klingon_writing_systems

Hm.

> "up-turned triangle" with a function similar to a comma, semi-colon
>  or colon.
> A "down-turned" triangle with a function similar to a full stop,
>  question mark or exclamation mark.

Based on the Unicode proposal, and the keyboard mappings I've run
across, that's exactly backwards.  The comma is the downward-pointing
triangle, and the full stop is the upward-pointing triangle...

Which use matches the Skybox cards?


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>




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