tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 17 23:06:52 1994
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Re: Re: SkyBox card SP2
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Re: SkyBox card SP2
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 94 11:02:57 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Thibaud Salle" at Aug 17, 94 4:29 pm
According to Thibaud Salle:
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>
> Would someone define precisely
> pIqaD characters
Okuda as artistic director of various Star Trek related
ventures, creates fake written text on alien displays for some
of their sets. Among those, he created a set of shapes he uses
to represent written Klingon, although he arranges these
characters by his own whim with no actual relationship between
what is written and what it might mean. These shapes are often
referred to as pIqaD characters because in TKD pIqaD is the
word meaning "Klingon writing system".
> pIqaD
As defined by TKD, this is "Klingon writing system (n)". Dr.
Lawrence Schoen, creator and editor of HolQeD and participant
on this list has assigned painstakingly beautiful images of
Okuda's characters to letters of Okrand's romanized Klingon
alphabet (so that {tlh} is a single character, for example) and
created a computer font useful for anyone with a system that
uses either PostScript or TrueType fonts. When someone speaks
of something written "in pIqaD", they usually mean that it is
written using Lawrence's font. When they say it "appears to be
written in pIqaD", they usually mean it was written using
BitStream's Paramont-endorsed TEN, count 'em, TEN useless
shapes assigned arbitrarily to a ten letters of the English
alphabet with no explanation whatsoever.
> and tlinghan Hol
This is the language of Klingons, written or spoken. If
written, it can be written "in pIqaD", or using Okrand's
romanized alphabet. We use that here because most computer
terminals that access this mailing list cannot represent pIqaD.
> thanks
> --
> Thibaud Salle' [email protected] [email protected]
You are welcome.
charghwI'