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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: veSDuj
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Write it with a chiselled tip marker. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qunnoQ HoD [mailto:[email protected]] <br><b>Sent:</b> October 18, 2015 9:21<br><b>To:</b> Robyn Stewart<br><b>Cc:</b> tlhIngan-Hol<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: veSDuj<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>one of the things that initially drew me to Klingon was the pIqaD,simply because it looks pretty cool. i remember many-many years ago hitting pause on some star trek episode,and carefully looking at the various pIqaD characters thinking how nice it would be to learn how to write them. Back then i didn't even know Klingon as a language existed. i thought someone made the letters up,and that's it ; end of story.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>the only disappointment was to find out that when these letters were to be written by hand,a lot of their cool looks,were lost. hand written pIqaD,-or at least written in normal writing speed- lacks a lot,compared to its printed counterpart.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>qunnoQ<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Robyn Stewart <<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of those the L bugs me the most, but then I used to be irritated by words like 'ampaS, qul, and jIb with links back to English. It was when I realized that immersed in Klingon grammar, no one is ever going to see or hear the tricks, that I accepted that that was simply how Marc was building his language, and I could pretend they were all coincidence<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>> On Oct 18, 2015, at 4:46, Lieven <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Am 18.10.2015 um 12:50 schrieb De'vID:<br>>>> On 17 October 2015 at 19:58, Lieven <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>>>> b) Somebody has invented a set of letters which are quite useful because<br>>>> they match the letters, and most klingonists have agreed to use this one.<br>><br>>> This is going off-topic, but...<br>><br>> We are having off topic discussions very often, and at least, it's still related to klingon :-)<br>><br>>> I really dislike the fact that the mapping makes the qaghwI' look like<br>>> an apostrophe.<br>><br>> Thanks you're saying that - I have always felt similar. I also do not like the l looking like an L, the D looking like a greek D, and the I looking close to an Y, and the u is close to a tilted u. Certainly the apostrophe looking like an apostrophe is the worst of all.<br>><br>>> actually appeared on the show. Whoever made the mapping made the other<br>>> glyphs based on the symbols seen in the show, except for that one.<br>><br>> So it's obviously someone who did not know much about tlhIngan Hol, except for the existing letters.<br>><br>> Don't misunderstand me - I do like the pIqaD we know and I cannot change it back to something else now. It's simply that I agree with De'vID that some of the letters look very terran.<br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Lieven L. Litaer<br>> aka Quvar valer 'utlh<br>> Grammarian of the KLI<br>> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher"; target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher</a><br>> <a href="http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/PIqaD"; target="_blank">http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/PIqaD</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br>> <a href="http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol"; target="_blank">http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br><a href="http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol"; target="_blank">http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>_______________________________________________
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