tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 17 10:45:04 1996
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Re: Rampant Punctaution
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>Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 12:15:32 -0700
>From: "AdmiralTAG" <[email protected]>
>~mark wrote:
>>Hell, the earliest Hebrew,
>>the earliest versions of the Bible, had no *vowels* written, but
>>they're written in now, as a convenience to modern readers.
>Depends where you are. I grant you that outside of Israel,
>particularly with beginners, vowels are used, but here, once
>yo've got a third grade education, you're expected to do fine
>without vowels. Heck, if I had to remember when to use a patach
>and when a komatz, I'd be in deep trouble.
Sure, but even in Israel, buy a Bible and it'll have vowels printed. OK,
newspapers and books don't, but vowels are used in many old texts, because
they are studied with such detail.
My point, and the relevance to Klingon, is that even though the Hebrew text
lacked vowels and phrasal markings in the originals, it is now printed with
them (in some contexts) for ease of study. So, too, we shouldn't shy away
from punctuation in our Romanized, artificial Klingon orthography
>BTW, Lawrence and ~mark, y'all don't expect the Hebrew
>translation to have vowels, do you? Because none of my
>word-processing porgrams even support the little suckers...
No, of course not.
~mark
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