[87977] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: pIqaD handwriting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue May 4 11:53:56 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:46:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <m2r3a6c71461005040729t16819238sff8faa39f8d5e3a0@mail.gmail.com>
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naHQun:
>I recently received a postcard where the sender wrote their message in
>pIqaD.
>My excitement soon faded when I realized that handwritten pIqaD is
>remarkably different than when typed with a computer.
The same thing is true of cursive Hebrew. Seminarians and secular academics who've studied Biblical Hebrew for years find to their surprise that they can't read a word of cursive Hebrew! They and their teachers use a "block-letter" style of printing which, while good for making signs, is of no use for reading handwritten notes and letters or fancy cursive fonts in Israeli media.
>It was also different than the way I write the characters myself.
>Eventually, I found out that they used
>http://klingonska.org/pic/longhand.jpg
>
>So, is there a style that's more (or less) preferred than others?
According to my notes Glen Proechel's "Interstellar Language School" used to sell his _pIqaD Exercise Book_ containing exercises for Glen's handwritten version of pIqaD for US$10. The website was http://www.geocities.com/athens/8853/ but the site is apparently no longer available.
Shane MiQogh's version of hand written pIqaD was available at
http://klingon.kohlrak.shorturl.com/pIqaD_ghop.jpg
but, again, I got a 404 "webpage not found" message when I just checked it now.
We've all worked out our own versions. I imagine most are more "block-letter" style rather than true cursive. Is there a preferred style that's used by the KLI at qep'a'mey?
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
