[95971] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Not capitalizing proper nouns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Apr 8 07:58:53 2013
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From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 04:58:13 -0700
To: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com>
Cc: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
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Consider the circumlocutions we use in English with unusual uncapitalized names like the person named bell hooks. You just have to be more careful of potential ambiguity. There are no capital letters in speech and we manage.
On 2013-04-08, at 1:15, "Michae Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com> wrote:
> In English, I'm used to capitalizing proper nouns.
>
> We don't do this in Klingon.
>
> Which makes me wonder how to specify that a word in Klingon is someone's name.
>
> I've recently been informed that German doesn't distinguish between
> nouns and proper nouns with capitalization.
>
> So, how do languages that don't distinguish keep things straight?
>
>
> ~naHQun
>
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