tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 08 03:58:30 1996
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Klingon writing (serious!)
- From: Roland Fischer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon writing (serious!)
- Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 12:58:28 +0100
Klingon writing (serious!)
> > I see the point. FWIW, whoever it was
who proposed the "stamped out"
> > theory way back when (I don't remember
who it was) suggested that the
> > actual hand of the writer, in various
positions, was the stamping tool, and
> > stamped in ink, not pressed into clay.
Using one's hand(s) and ink could
> > produce a great many more simple
elements than most normal writing tools,
> > so there may still be room to defend
this theory.
> >
> Except you'd need a honking big piece of
paper to write more than a few
> words! (This reminds me of the old
Buster Keaton routine where he'd take
> a tiny square of paper out of his pocket
and unfold it until it was the
> size of a bedsheet)
Perhaps they used their thumbnails (I
think,
they have thumbnails...) or another one.
Of course, the thumbnail could be pretty
well re-formed to something similar to
a blade o.s.e.
And for sure, they wouldn't use ordinary
ink, they would use blood!
This makes me think of something like a
living calli-whatever-graphy pen (pipius
claw!).
Maybe they cut a small line in their arms
(using the blade-formed thumbnail) and
then write with their own blood?
Maybe you're going to ask why the
thumbnail.
Well, imagine a Klingon sitting in front of
-eh- a sheet of paper, his hands lying on
this paper. In this position, the
thumbnails
could be used best for writing; this would
produce letters similar to the pIquaD,
because
it's not easy to form straight lines, when
the hands are lying on the paper. But
letters
as the pIquaD letters were pre-programmed.
It would also be easy to -eh- refill the
ink -eh- blood supply by one quick move.
Gonna' ask my cat how he would write if he
was a Klingon... BTW, my cat's got a really
true Klingon name: "Mikesch" {mIQeS}.
Qapla'
nyuD
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