tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 28 08:59:21 1995
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Re: How to read Klingon
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: How to read Klingon
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 95 11:59:17 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Steve Weaver" at Jan 26, 95 8:41 am
According to Steve Weaver:
>
> So'wI' chu'lu'Ha'
>
> I had a dream last night about a recent thread on reading Klingon (Left to
> Right, Right to Left, Middle Out, etc). I thought about this: First line is
> read Left to Right then next line is read Right to left then next line L2R,
> etc.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> Makes for rapid scanning of text for a warrior race, no?
Clever as it seems, it's been done. The name for it escapes me,
though I know the etymology refers to "oxen" because it is read
and written "as the ox plows". I know of at least one system of
writing for the blind (different from braille) that does this,
and I know that written texts have done this as well in ancient
languages. Surely, somewhere someone is still doing it...
Anyway, the one thing we can not from Okuda's sets is that it
is almost always centered on the line, and when it has flashed
up on displays, it may go center outward or left to right, or a
line at a time, but the lines ALWAYS appear at the top first,
then more is added toward the bottom.
> Steve Weaver [email protected]
charghwI'
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