tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 28 14:28:04 1996
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Re: Re[2]: Klingon writing tool
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>Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:19:40 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>At 04:12 AM 5/22/96 -0700, bangteH wrote:
>>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)
>Actually they can trace all of the Roman type back to ancient Egypte. The
>letter "A" that we use today, actualy derives from an ancient Egyption glyph
>which was a drawing of a bull. Most other Romanized letters can be traced in
>this same way.
Actually, they weren't Egyptian glyphs, but Phonoecian. Most modern
alphabets eventually derive from the Phonoecian, which was, apparently,
pictorial in origin (ox for A, house for B, camel's hump(?) for G which
became C (and then G developed from it later), etc). You can see it in
Semitic languages (and in their letter-names and what they mean), and in
the Greek Alphabet, and in Etruscan, from which Latin got its alphabet.
And as I said, there are theories that the Phonoecian alphabet got it start
from three-dimensional tokens, which later were pressed into clay, and then
approximated by drawing. These theories aren't even CLOSE to being
universally accepted, though, and aren't even truly mainstream. Just FYI.
~mark
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