tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 11 17:02:24 1997
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Re: Spell check......
Tom Owen writes:
>Is there a spelling dictionary for Klingon? =
Since Klingon is an agglutinative language, a simple dictionary won't
help a lot. There are a lot of combinations of suffixes that can go
on the words, and it would be very cumbersome to have {Sop}, {Soprup},
{Soplu'DI'}, {SoptaHvIS}, {Sopqangqu'mo'}, etc. all defined separately.
Compound words are marginally legal, but a dictionary lookup won't find
them easily.
The best "Klingon spelling checkers" are actually word analyzers. If
I'm really concerned about the accuracy of something I'm writing, then
I run it past either /pojwI'/, /mu' HaqwI'/, or my own /mu'Sor/ program.
They all break down the Klingon into root words and affixes, and can
flag misordered suffixes.
-- ghunchu'wI'