tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 19 06:49:34 2004
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Re: canon pIqaD
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: canon pIqaD
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:48:51 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Christoph:
>I can't speak for english, but at least in german, there are multiple
>ways of (hand) writing the symbols - the same would probably be true
>for pIqaD.
In English, /a/ and /g/, and /z/ in handwriting, can be very different from
one font to the next.
There are a lot of differences in the ways people handwrite pIqaD, too (at
least for the KLI's pIqaDqoq, anyway). There are some samples at
http://klingonska.org/piqadpic.html. Here are some differences that I've
noticed from that page (at least for those people whose styles I'm familiar
with):
- The character that DloraH writes (or used to write?) for /S/ resembled my
/gh/, and my /S/ is something different altogether.
- My letter /e/ has a small tick at the bottom that distinguishes it from
/w/, where DloraH's /w/ had a curve to make the distinction.
- maHvatlh's /a/ was two strokes, mine is one.
- maHvatlh's /I/ was one stroke, mine is two.
- Some people's handwriting has trouble distinguishing between /q/ and /Q/;
mine more often confuses /p/ and /Q/ (/q/ can also get confused with /w/ in
my style if I'm sloppy).
And as you can see, the list goes on.
QeS lagh
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