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Re: Klingon orthography

Michael Everson ([email protected])

• From: Michael Everson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon orthography
• Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:49:01 +0100
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On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:47, David Trimboli wrote:

> (I still yearn for better support for text figures on  the Web.)

What, oldstyle numerals?

> They're not some pointless, arbitrary form that someone came up with  
> one day.

No, they're not. And I remember reading TKD in 1985, noticing that  
Okrand had used S and D just to try to impress on naïve English  
speakers that the sounds weren't [s] and [d]. Useful at the time, but  
I am not sure those conventions are good for the long term.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

• References:
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    • From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
  • Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
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  • Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
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