tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 19 03:12:58 1993

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Re: pIqaD Direction?

>> A few weeks ago, on TNG (I believe it was the same one with the Klingon
>> restaurant we were discussing before), I thought I saw the Okuda pIqaD
>> flashing up on some display.  What was interesting was that it wasn't just
>> sppearing all at once, but was being put on character by character (albeit
>> quickly).  If we can infer from this the direction that pIqaD is written
>> (and if we care), then I should report that it seemd to be wriien *top to
>> bottom* (and the columns proceed from left to right).  Just something to
>> think about.

>Anyways, my point is... so what if you saw the letters go up to down
>in columns left to right. Well, possibly that is the way they go. *I*
>saw them go left to right in individual rows on ST3, and ST6. That's
>also the way it types on LMSchoen's font disk. Remember in that interview
>with MikeOkuda HolQeD 1:1 where he said "you'll see it start in the 
>center and go outwards." HA! how does THAT work?!! Okuda's a scene designer;
>he uses what looks good, not real Hol words. He jist ain't no linguist.


>This is the way that traditional Mongolian script is written.  After almost
>50 years of cyrillic, under Russian influence, the old script is again
>being taught in Mongolian schools.

Actually, the *true* answer is that it's a hardware problem.  Some Klingon
screens simply have a very odd display memory layout.  {{:-)

                        --Krankor

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