tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 27 16:48:07 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Proper orientation of the qaghwI'?
<div dir="ltr">The Klingon Dictionary always uses a 9-shaped apostrophe, and so do all other books that use Klingon, if I'm not mistaked (too lazy to check them all, now). So I'd say that's the "standard". Marc Okrand in his handwriting tries to approximate that shape as well, sometimes it looks like a Hebrew yod (י).<br>
<br>Personally, I prefer that 9-shaped one (forgive me for not knowing the typographic term) too and use it when writing Klingon by hand, too. It's pleasing to the eye. I don't like the simple straight apostrophe (which probably has a different name in typography), although it's perfectly fine in small fonts or on the mailing list or when aesthetics aren't so important.<br>
<br>Most other options, like the Hawaiian Okina or a grave or acute accent just look disgusting. The German version of the TKD uses acute accents (qaghwI´) in its dictionary section and it gives me eye cancer.<br><br>- André (it also gives me eye cancer seeing my name written as Andre' or Andrè, but that's another story)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/28 Michael Roney, Jr. PKT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="font-family:Prelude,Verdana,san-serif">Lots of Terran languages use a glottal stop.<br><br>But each of them write the letter slightly differently.<br><br>My US-English word processor enjoys treating it as an apostrophe; which is why I have disabled "smart quotes".<br>
<br>Is there a correct way to write it?<br>Or a preferred way?<br><br>~'anan naHQun<br><br></span><span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#999999">~Michael Roney, Jr.<br>Professional Klingon translator<br>
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