tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 26 06:23:20 1995
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Re: How to read Klingon
Some of us probably do wish that Klingon were done boustrephedon, but if
.yaw taht nrael ot rehguot *hcum* saw keerG ,sallE' fo evitan a ksa uoy
Then your brain has to recognize the same word two different ways, and
.tneiciffe yrev t'nsi ti ,ecapS elbuoD gninnur si niarb ruoy sselnu
(Hmm, that backwards text looks like Romulan, eh?)
Okuda has essentially informed us that Klingon text is "centered" (even
though he greeks it, he does radiate it out from the center.) The
convention most of >Hol<dom agrees on is that Klingon text is probably
one sentence per line. (Thus reducing the need for punctuation, as a
"carriage return" is the period, and >'e'< usually takes care of commas
and semicolons.)
I give a sample of what it might look like. (Sorry, have no ASCIIpIqaD)
>nuqneH<?
>lI'qu' tlhIngan may' taj<
>not HubHa"eghrup lo'wI'<
>taj DopmeyDaq nargh cha' tajHom<
>ghop luQan tajHommey<
>pe'laH je<
>...<
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