tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 06 23:26:22 2002
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Imperial Klingon Vessel
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Imperial Klingon Vessel
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:26:14 EDT
In a message dated 4/23/2002 4:57:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Trying to abbreviating Klingon would be like trying to abbreviate Chinese.
> Maybe there's a native system to do it, but *I* don't know what it is. But
> you certainly wouldn't abbreviate Chinese by abbreviating a Pinyin
> transcription
Abbreviating in Chinese is done by dropping characters so that the result is
still understood, usually after seeing the abbreviation many times.
Examples: Beijing University = bei-jing da-xue = bei-da
President Jiang Zemin = Jiang Zemin Zongtong = Jiang Shi
peHruS