tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 22 16:41:20 1999
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Re: RE: KLBC: capitals in the writing system
At 10:35 PM 21/01/99 -0800, you wrote:
>ja' charghwI':
>>My understanding is that Okrand fudged IPA, mimicking parts of
>>it and whole-cloth making up other parts.
>
>I don't have it documented anywhere, but I remember his saying that
>he originally developed Klingon phonology using IPA. The spelling
>system presented in TKD was developed so the actors in Star Trek III
>could read it. :-) Its representability in ASCII text is a bonus.
What *exactly* is IPA?
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