tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 02 06:03:44 1998
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Re: Beginner's questions
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:53:08 -0400
From: Qov <[email protected]>
>At 17:26 98-05-31 -0700, qronaH wrote:
>}My next question concerns using I (capital "i"). Is there a simple way to
tell
>}the difference between the upper case "i" and the lower case "L"? Since I
have
>}to look up almost every word in the email messages a simple way to figure
out
>}if I'm looking for an "i" or an "L" would be helpful. BTW I'm not trying
to
>}change the way its written, just looking for any tips that might help me
tell
>}which letter I'm looking at.
>
>1. Change your mail program to use a font with serifs, Times Roman or
System
>work well. I believe that sans serif Klingon is never ambiguous, but
>there's no need to torture yourself.
qronaH is using AOL, which does not yet allow the user to change fonts. It
uses a sans serif font for e-mail. AOL users have a number of choices:
(1) Use another service. Not a likely choice for many.
(2) Copy all of your Klingon e-mail to text-reading programs which DO let
you use serif fonts, and read it there. This can be clumsy and
time-consuming.
(3) Learn Klingon really fast, and you'll always know whether an "l" or an
"I" is meant. (For some reason, though I don't read my Klingon mail on AOL,
I have never bothered to change my mail font from the default sans serif
one. The only time I ever really had any trouble was in figuring out
DloraH's name. I had to memorize how it was said aloud before I could
remember how it was spelled.)
(4) Wait and suffer until AOL 4.0 is released, which will have font-changing
capabilities.
I'm sure there are more possibilities.
>In my handwritten Klingon, {I} and {l} are indistinguishable and {'} is
>often long enough to be confused with either. I like to write the
following
>chicken scratch. :)
My handwritten Klingon always includes the two horizontal bars on the "I".
SuStel
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