tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 03 18:50:26 1996
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Re: That banner on the screen
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- Subject: Re: That banner on the screen
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:49:54 -0400
96-10-03 20:20:05 EDT, jatlh DloraH:
> First of all, according to the font available from KLI the letters would
be:
>
> gh-y-y-w-l-ng-a-l-y-w-v
>
> those are (Y)'s not (H)'s.
bIlugh! DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'!
> second, the font used is not the one from KLI. So these really aren't the
> right letters anyway. The font used matches the symbols found in 'The
Star
> Trek Encyclopedia' under the entry 'written languages'. These were just
> some symbols that were thown in; only the English symbols make any sense.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the font used is not the one from KLI."
The KLI did not make up these symbols. Watch the beginning of Star Trek:
The Motion Picture. Take a close look at the Klingon tactical display as the
V'Ger plasma weapon approaches the ship. Those are the same letters.
Quite simply, no Klingon lettering which has ever appeared on any "canon"
source has any meaning. There's Okrand canon, but he has never been able to
develop his idea for a writing system (he *does* have one, but he won't tell
us yet); and there's Star Trek filmed canon, which has people using these
symbols 'cause they look neat. Even on the Star Trek: Klingon CD-Rom, Mark
Mandel has told us that the producers weren't aware that anyone had come up
with an alphabet system for those symbols (and that they wished they knew
this ahead of time). They don't even change for different words. They're
just for show.
SuStel
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