tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 01 20:26:34 2002
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Re: pIqaD
- From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: pIqaD
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:26:18 -0800
- References: <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote:
>
> We don't know anything about the greeked stuff that Okuda puts out except that
> it definitely has no language behind it. Characters there are chosen to suit
> his artistic preference. You can pretend that it represents language that
> nobody understands except for fictional characters, if you like. I tend to
> simply be offended by Okuda's power play and wish he'd leave language to the
> linguists and get out of the way of an official canon pIqaD.
>
Okay, I'll bite... (dangerous thing to say when there are klingons
around)...
Has someone ever asked Marc Okrand about the writing system?
That being said, I personally (and I'm not a linguist, although the
subject has always had great fascination to me) suspect that an
alphabetic script would work well for Klingon; the sound system really
does to me seem a lot more alphabetical than syllabic, and seems regular
enough in the way that one could imagine being imposed by an alphabetic
writing system.
Someone mentioned Atatürk and Turkish; it is certainly not the only
modern language which has had recent spelling reforms and thus are spelt
in an extremely regular fashion (Spanish and Norwegian come to mind.)
Personally I would dare to guess that a Klingon probably would look very
strange at a human trying to explain the concept of an "official"
spelling, and that they simply spell things the way they would pronounce
them. This is another way a language would get spelt in a highly
phonetic fashion.
-hpa