tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 03 21:13:39 1996
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Re: The Klingon Encyclopaedia?
- From: [email protected] (Denny Shortliffe)
- Subject: Re: The Klingon Encyclopaedia?
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:13:34 -0400
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>At 04:11 PM 9/3/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>Marc Okrand *does* have some ideas for the {pIqaD}, but he isn't free to
>>explain or publish them at the present time. Others (in particular, Mike
>>Okuda) apparently don't want to have to learn Klingon when making their set
>>designs for Star Trek. And they don't want to get it wrong. The characters
>>displayed are put there according to Okuda's (and others') sense of
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>>aesthetics.
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>
>Well why doesn't Mike Okuda just ask Marc to translate so-and-so and then
>have Marc send it back under the unofficial pIqaD font, already typed up, so
>Mike can just "print" it onto the designs? That means the only thing
>different that Mike is doing then from now [in theory] is getting the font
>print-out from Marc.
>
>
>--Dark Viper-----------------------------
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Sorry, Dark Viper, but you missed the point which I have underlined; Okuda
et al don't give a damn whether or not the pIqaD means anything or not;
they just want it to *LOOK NICE*!!
Qapla'
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tlhIngan wo' Duj qIj leng Commanding Officer, IKV Black Odyssey
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Denny Shortliffe