tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 08 15:35:58 2003
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RE: pIqaD..
- From: "Your Name" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: pIqaD..
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:16:45 -0500
There is a feature in pojwI' for quickly and easily converting to
pIqaD. This is a great way to get practice reading the script. You
must have the KLI font, but once you have it this works nicely. (The
spell-checker even works with pIqaD text.)
--Holtej
>
> >ja' Kash:
> >Anyhow, bottom line: what's the easiest, quickest, or most thorough
way
> >to learn pIqaD?
> >--Kash
>
> I learned a little pIqaD over the years just by using it in signs I
put
> on stuff around my house, including a nice "No Smoking" sign I bought
at
> qep'a' cha'DIch. But most of what I learned came when I learned to
> write pIqaD (as opposed to using the font on the computer to do it) by
> writing out part of the text of ghIlghameS in pIqaD. (One of my
planned
> projects is to write this up in a nice blank book I've purchased for
> this purpose.) The writing system I use can be found on the
Klingonska
> Akademien site, on this page
(http://www.klingonska.org/piqadpic.html).
> The image of the passage from ghIlghameS is about halfway down the
page,
> done by the translator of the work, Roger Cheesboro (DloraH). It took
> me about twenty minutes to read this passage the first time, by
looking
> at the chart which is above it, but when I had finished I thought to
> myself, "This is Really Freakin' Cool. I wish there were a pIqaD
> version of ghIlghameS so I could read the whole thing in pIqaD!"
Well,
> of course, there isn't one. So I thought of doing it myself!
>
> Now I can read the pIqaD font (admittedly haltingly) and handwritten
> ones that are sufficently similar. The trouble with the handwritten
> type is that there is no standard, really. I have chosen DloraH's
style
> because I like it, but HolQeD Volume 2 Number 2 (June 1993) has an
> article about pIqaD with examples of how one might write it. Those
> examples differ somewhat from DloraH's style. That was the first
issue
> of HolQeD I owned, and the thing that got me connected with the KLI in
> the first place. Ah, yes, I am the Nostalgia Queen. :)
>
> Good luck with learning the pIqaD. I hope you find it as enjoyable
as I
> do.
>
>
> jIqel ghojwI'
> <batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' jIHem>
>
>
>
>
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