tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 21 04:36:45 1997
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Re: my name
>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:07:54 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
>
>In a message dated 97-09-11 13:23:21 EDT, Lieven writes:
>
><< Deghmey -v- -r- je jatlhlaHbe' *german*ngan .
> >>
>
>Although {Deghmey} is a good way of expressing "symbols", I have seen many on
>this listserv use {chovnatlh} for "letter of an alphabet". Just throwing
>this your way.
Really? It's not a bad idea, but I don't recall ever seeing it before.
It's a little insufficiently precise for me; I'd be thinking "specimen of
WHAT?" For printed letters, I'd sort of want to see something talking
about pIqaD (even though it's not really pIqaD, but Latin letters; I'm
talking informal settings here). This wouldn't be right here, though, for
the same reason {Deghmey} is imperfect, since we're not, after all, talking
about the symbols, but the *sounds* they represent. QIch maybe?
~mark