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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E. Shoulson)
Thu Oct 6 19:24:42 2011
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:24:27 -0400
From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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On 10/06/2011 05:51 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> It's dangerous to speculate about what would be "better" for writing
> any language, but given ta' Hol's penchant for CVC syllables,
> something similar to Korean hangul would probably be the most
> efficient. But if other dialects of Klingon have different syllable
> forms, then a simple alphabet may have proven most flexible over time.
>
As writing systems go, in all fairness, it's hard to beat a simple
alphabet, in a lot of criteria. OK, it sounds kind of narrow-minded to
say it, but alphabets really do (or can) rock. They're flexible, they
use a minimum of glyphs, they're extensible by various means even
without actually adding whole new letters... Granted, those aren't
always the criteria being used to judge...
~mark
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On 10/06/2011 05:51 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">It's dangerous to
speculate about what would be "better" for writing any
language, but given <span style="font-weight: bold;">ta'
Hol'</span>s penchant for CVC syllables, something
similar to Korean <span style="font-style: italic;">hangul</span>
would probably be the most efficient. But if other
dialects of Klingon have different syllable forms, then a
simple alphabet may have proven most flexible over time.<br>
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</tbody>
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As writing systems go, in all fairness, it's hard to beat a simple
alphabet, in a lot of criteria. OK, it sounds kind of narrow-minded
to say it, but alphabets really do (or can) rock. They're flexible,
they use a minimum of glyphs, they're extensible by various means
even without actually adding whole new letters... Granted, those
aren't always the criteria being used to judge...<br>
<br>
~mark<br>
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