tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 16 13:37:59 1996
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Re: Re[2]: Beginner's questions
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Frank M Truelove wrote:
> "no officially sanctioned mapping."
> This no official piQaD pisses me off. You can't really learn a language if you
> can't use its alphabet. I imagine it's very difficult to learn Japanese without
> the benefit of katakana and kanji. Is Russian taught without the Cyrillic
> alphabet?
>
> "The KLI does, however, use a simple alphabetic mapping between the Roman
> transcriptions and a subset of the characters that have appeared on screen; this
> mapping is given in the first issue of _HolQeD_, and fonts making use of it are
> available from the KLI."
> Again, unless you have access to someone's back issue collection . . . .
>
> Any offense was not intended.
> --bangteH
The mapping is on the KLI's WWW site, at:
http://kli.org/kli/pIqaD.html
and
http://kli.org/kli/pics/piqdemo.gif
Hope that helps,
-- Soruk
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