tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 23 20:36:05 2009
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Re: Klingon orthography
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Klingon orthography
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:38 EDT
In a message dated 6/23/2009 18:30:48 Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Michael, being a typographer, understands well the purpose of lower-case
> letters. They provide a break for the eye, and really do make text
> easier to read. (I still yearn for better support for text figures on
> the Web.) They're not some pointless, arbitrary form that someone came
> up with one day.
>
So many languages (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Sanskrit/Hindi)
have no native concept of letter case that this is highly dubious and
possibly irrelevant.
lay'tel SIvten