tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 22 19:06:06 2008
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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:05:11 EDT
In a message dated 4/22/2008 20:48:46 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Romanized tlhIngan Hol is not the written language of Klingons. It is
> a phonetic notation of what a Klingon says out loud.
I hadn't realized this, but consulting TKG seems to bear it out.
I'd always thought that our current transcription system was a
*transliteration* system, with a more or less one-for-one mapping between it and {pIqaD}. I
see now that's not true.
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