[86219] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Roney, Jr.)
Wed Jul 8 01:35:01 2009
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 01:32:17 -0400
From: "Michael Roney, Jr." <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <d56.2e79e211.37850130@wmconnect.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
I was taught that a period is a stop sign and a comma is a yield sign.
The comma triangle just happens to have the same orientation as a yield sign.
~naHQun
-Michael Roney, Jr.
Professional Klingon translator
http://twitter.com/roneyii
--Sent from my Palm PreMorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
In a message dated 7/7/2009 10:31:24 Eastern Daylight Time,
markjreed@gmail.com writes:
> 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?
>
Skybox uses pointing up for sentence finals (periods, question marks,
exclamation marks) and pointing down for other (commas, semicolons).
I think of it like this: the pointing-up triangle has its base firmly on
the ground and can't topple over; it's stable and firm on its own. The
pointing-down triangle can fall over, so it's unstable and must be supported on
both sides.
lay'tel SIvten
