tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 30 10:14:14 2000
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Re: klingon abbreviations
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- Subject: Re: klingon abbreviations
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 13:13:39 -0500 (EST)
> It may be fun for you, but it's enormously frustrating to me. I saw the *lj*
> someone had used in another post, and wondered what that was supposed to be.
>[...]
> I vote no on abbreviations.
> lay'tel SIvten
jIQochbe'. <*lj> vIlaDtaHvIS, vIyajbe'. tup puS poH jIQub vaj jIyaj.
I second that vote. If you can use a relative beginner's observation:
When I saw <*lj> it took me a while to figure out. I didn't want to
ask about it because having been on the list for a short time, I
didn't know if it was accepted usage, though it was the first time
I saw it. I am glad that it isn't a convention (yet). I think it
might be enough to discourage a beginner to see "words" they can't
find in the dictionary and word lists.
[OTOH, if you do use abbrevs. could you make them stand out, such as
use all caps <wa', cha', wej, LJ> or putting in periods <loS, vagh,
jav, l.j.>? Makes it more obvious it's not a typo.]
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