tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 30 04:03:28 1996
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Engishization of Klingon (Was: RE: KLBC a phrase about Honor)
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Engishization of Klingon (Was: RE: KLBC a phrase about Honor)
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:46:11
~mark writes
>>now. (Am I the only one dismayed by Okrand's musing (threat?) that
>>Klingon orthography might not be alphabetic?)
> I'm not dismayed. I rather hope it turns out not to be, and we get a
> nice weird one. I hope he gives us an excuse to make the alphabetic
> one "OK", like the excuse I use, but I'd be quite happy with a
> non-alphabetic system. Alphabets are too easy. Given Klingon's mainly
Something along the lines of the multiple ways of "writing" Japanese? I could
live with that....
> exceptions for rgh and whatnot). Or alphabets or syllabaries for the
> content words and special symbols for the affixes (as someone
> suggested). So we'd even have different spellings for the two meanings
> of -wI', etc.
Hmm. That's an evil thought. To make it really weird, there might be a
different symbol for each verb prefix - even the ones that sound identical
(ie. three different symbols for {yI-}).
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