tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 21 11:35:08 1996
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Re: Klingon writing tool
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>Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:35:38 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Frank M Truelove)
>Has anyone advanced any theories about what sort of stylus the tlhIngan pIqaD
>was originally made by? (I'm assuming, of course, that ST is "real".)
>The shapes of the letters would be limited to the applications of the tool
>used. Looking at the letters on my screen as I write this, I'm certain that
>these are not brush-strokes. It would seem that these shapes are more
>readily carved than drawn or painted.
Someone here once, a long time ago, suggested that they were made (in part,
anyway) by stamping out the letters using various parts of the hand in
various positions (presumably using the warm blood of one's prey as ink).
A thought. Some of the letters certainly look brushed (gh, for example).
Then there's also considering the variations of typefaces. Look at a
standard Times Roman typeface: would you think it was drawn with a pen?
With all those serifs and brackets? OK, maybe. But I'm sure you can find
some display faces which couldn't have been drawn with simple strokes.
They were derived from hand-drawn glyphs, but the derivation is no longer
obvious if you didn't see the earlier figures. The same may be true of the
Klingon font we have. Maybe there are other typefaces that are closer to
the original form, which might be brushed or stroked or whatever.
~mark
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