tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 12 05:07:15 2002
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Re: Damn Capitalization
>Well, I understand that sporadical captialization can be a nuisance.
>But that shouldn't affect your writing after a while. In other words:
>get used to it. FYI: since my native language is german, I'd tend to
>capitalize many words that aren't in english(or klingon), or, when
>writing german, I sometimes forget about capitalizing words.
>
>Beside that, how would you want to change it? The letters used are an
>almost perfect representation of what they are supposed to be. Chosing
>an "x" for "tlh" or similiar doesn t help anyone.
>
>If you would really change the writing system - what's next?
>Eliminating the article("the") because it isn't necessary? After all,
>klingon work's without.
>
>Klingon's supposed to be a foreign language - and foreign languages
>usually have different phonetics and writing systems. If you're going
>to learn german, you'll have to get used to "umlauts"(strange word) too
>- you can't replace them through other letters either.
but there's a difference (again).
the klingon letters are arbitrary. it could be any letters, as
klingons don't use them.
sts.