tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 29 00:00:55 1997

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Re: KLBC



I'm using whatever that my keyboard's set up for...and I'm on hotmail
as my email...
It could be my spacin' too...

j I yaj .. Da Hjaj Sept.29th  Any better ?

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>At 11:18 97-09-28 -0700, Msala wrote:
>}nuqneH !qaleghneS ..
>
>}I'm Baaaack -- Msala
>
>Brenda, I get the idea you can't see what you are typing very clearly.  
What
>font and point size do you use in the program which you use to compose 
mail?
>When I get your mail, your writing contains spaces where there 
shouldn't be,
>and missing spaces where there should be spaces. I suspect that you are
>using a small proportional font and that you can't see where the spaces 
are
>in your own text.  Worse yet, you can't see where the spaces are in 
everyone
>else's text, making Klingon very hard for you to read.  For the same 
reason
>that your grade one readers had big print, I also recommend you use a 
large
>point size.
>
>Don't even try to read this:
>notmu'chavchughghItlhwI'ghItlhlaDlaH'Iv?loQveQvamvIlaDlaHjIH'achvIqonlI'mo'vIyaj
>
>I recommend a font that is non-proportional (has equal widths for all
>letters) and with serifs (the marks that distinguish between the 
capital I
>(eye) and the lower case l (ell)).  I use Courier.  Times Roman is 
another
>widely available serif font, but I think some verstions are 
proportional,
>which makes it hard to see spaces between {'} letters.  If you don't 
have
>any fancy fonts, the plain System font is perfectly adequate.  If you 
use a
>sans serif font, the following line looks like chicken scratch:
>
>tlhIllIj lI' lIlI'lI' jIllI' 
>(Your neighbour is transmitting you all your useful minerals.)
>
>If you have trouble changing fonts, follow up explaining what sort of
>computer system you use and what mail program, and someone here may be 
able
>to give instructions. 
>
>}y I'el . rI  . rI'Se .SIQ . (just practicin') QumpIn !.
>
>yI'el - enter, come in
>rI' - hail   
>rI'Se' - hailing frequency
>SIQ  - endure, bear
> 
>You *must* include all the {'} letters.  You can' omi hem anymore han 
you
>can no use he leer "t" in English.  I's very hard o read. Ge i?  :)
>
>yIqeqtaH  - Keep practising.
>
>Qov     [email protected]
>Beginners' Grammarian                 
>
>


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