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RE: pIqaD..

Your Name ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']


There is a feature in pojwI' for quickly and easily converting to 
pIqaD.  This is a great way to get practice reading the script.  You 
must have the KLI font, but once you have it this works nicely.  (The 
spell-checker even works with pIqaD text.)

--Holtej

> 
> >ja' Kash:
> >Anyhow, bottom line: what's the easiest, quickest, or most thorough 
way
> >to learn pIqaD?
> >--Kash
> 
> I learned a little pIqaD over the years just by using it in signs I 
put
> on stuff around my house, including a nice "No Smoking" sign I bought 
at
> qep'a' cha'DIch.  But most of what I learned came when I learned to
> write pIqaD (as opposed to using the font on the computer to do it) by
> writing out part of the text of ghIlghameS in pIqaD.  (One of my 
planned
> projects is to write this up in a nice blank book I've purchased for
> this purpose.)  The writing system I use can be found on the 
Klingonska
> Akademien site, on this page 
(http://www.klingonska.org/piqadpic.html).
> The image of the passage from ghIlghameS is about halfway down the 
page,
> done by the translator of the work, Roger Cheesboro (DloraH).  It took
> me about twenty minutes to read this passage the first time, by 
looking
> at the chart which is above it, but when I had finished I thought to
> myself, "This is Really Freakin' Cool.  I wish there were a pIqaD
> version of ghIlghameS so I could read the whole thing in pIqaD!"  
Well,
> of course, there isn't one.  So I thought of doing it myself!  
> 
> Now I can read the pIqaD font (admittedly haltingly) and handwritten
> ones that are sufficently similar.  The trouble with the handwritten
> type is that there is no standard, really.  I have chosen DloraH's 
style
> because I like it, but HolQeD Volume 2 Number 2 (June 1993) has an
> article about pIqaD with examples of how one might write it.  Those
> examples differ somewhat from DloraH's style.  That was the first 
issue
> of HolQeD I owned, and the thing that got me connected with the KLI in
> the first place.  Ah, yes, I am the Nostalgia Queen. :)  
> 
> Good luck with learning the pIqaD.  I hope you find it as enjoyable 
as I
> do.
> 
> 
> jIqel ghojwI'
> <batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' jIHem>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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