tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 22 04:07:29 1996
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Re[2]: Klingon writing tool
- From: [email protected] (Frank M Truelove)
- Subject: Re[2]: Klingon writing tool
- Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 07:08:09 -0400
"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)."
Was this before or after the film "Seven"? Letters made with the hand of a
victim, notable Sloth. (grin)
"Some of the letters certainly look brushed (gh, for example)."
It might be helpful to find out how the Paramount inventor made the pIqaD in the
first place.
"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?"
Personally, I'm discounting modern typefaces. I'm assuming that the pIqaD was
invented before moveable type. And remember, Latin letters were chiselled with
"all those serifs".
"They were derived from hand-drawn glyphs, but the derivation is no longer
obvious"
I'm not going to insist but I do think that the Klingons wouldn't involve
themselves with a million or so fonts when one works quite well, dammit.
(grinning)
Thanks for your opinion.
--bangteH