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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Not capitalizing proper nouns

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Apr 10 11:21:17 2013

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:20:59 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmOa486kHv-cLTzzOpU34_=CBo7g7a1-ApnO4Xcaw0ST4A@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On 4/10/2013 11:10 AM, De'vID wrote:
> When we see regular Klingon text, it's usually the standard pIqaD(qoq)
> letters. When we see symbols which we expect to represent proper
> nouns, they deviate from the standard letters (but still look like
> them somehow) and sometimes appear joined up. Like I said, I may be
> imagining things, or reading too much into set design choices which
> have nothing to do with proper nouns, but the impression I got from
> watching the shows and movies is that when proper nouns are written in
> Klingon they use special characters or a different style of writing.

Ah, so we don't actually know this at all. Gotcha.

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