tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 28 20:10:00 2008
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Re: idea for writing system
ja' Lawrence John Rogers:
> I'd be taking the characters of the gobbldy-gook and creating a
> writing system out of it.
qatlh? pIqaDna' 'oH pat'e' Da'oghbogh 'e' Daghet DaneH'a'?
Why? Do you plan to present your system as "the" Klingon system?
naDev tlhIngan Hol wIHaD neH. wI'oghbe'. wIlo'.
qech DI'ogh. mu'tlhegh DI'ogh. lut DI'ogh. bom DI'ogh.
'ach patmey lo'bogh tlhInganpu' wI'oghlaHbe' maH.
We just study Klingon here. We don't invent it. We use it.
Ideas, sentences, stories, songs -- these we invent.
But *we* can't invent systems used by Klingons.
rut pIqaDqoq wIlo'. mungDaj wISovchu'be'. pIqaDna' 'oH 'e' neH
wISov. 'IHchoHmeH ghItlhmeymaj 'ej DajchoHmeH 'oH wIlo'. tlhIngan
DIDachu' 'e' QaHbe'.
The origin of the "pIqaD" that we use on occasion is obscure. All we
know is that it's not "really" the Klingon writing system. We use it
as an artistic conceit rather than as an attempt to be more
authentically Klingon.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh