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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
• Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:07:07 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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