tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 21 07:30:18 1996
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Klingon Punctuation
- From: Nick Nicholas <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon Punctuation
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 02:22:09 +0000
- Organization: University of Melbourne, Dept. of Linguistics
Perusing the KLI pIqaD page, I'm reminded of the fact that, contrary to
received opinion, the punctuation on the Klingon trading cards *does*
feature punctuation, in the form of upside-down and right-side-up
triangles. They are not consistently mapped with the commas and full stops
in the romanised text, but it makes as much sense to map, say /\ to full
__ --
stop and \/ to comma and semicolon as anything (remember that our letters-
to-pIqaD assignment is just as unofficial.)
--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nick Nicholas. The Nonce and Future Linguist. University of Melbourne.
[email protected] <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~nsn>
(FORMERLY [email protected]; please update!)
"Henry Squirrel was thirsty. He walked over to the river bank where his good
friend Bill Bird was sitting. Henry slipped and fell in the river. Gravity
drowned." --- TALE-SPIN Story Generator, James Meehan, Yale AI Lab, 1975.