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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E. Shoulson)
Thu Oct 6 07:23:35 2011

Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:23:18 -0400
From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <000d01cc8361$cf344f40$6d9cedc0$@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On 10/05/2011 09:22 AM, David Trimboli wrote:
> I, for one, will be
> quite disappointed if it turns out that the poorly understood pIqaD that
> handles all the dialects well mentioned in TKD turns out to be nothing more
> than a simple alphabet that happens to exactly match the transcription
> system introduced in the same book. What a waste!

It might be disappointing, and it would be cooler if it were otherwise, 
but it should be noted that if it really be as simple as that, even so 
that would be completely feasible as a "real" language. Such things 
happen all the time, when spellings get set to a standard dialect.

~mark

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