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Re: Klingon orthography

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon orthography
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:35:38 EDT

In a message dated 6/23/2009 18:30:48 Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Michael, being a typographer, understands well the purpose of lower-case 
> letters. They provide a break for the eye, and really do make text 
> easier to read. (I still yearn for better support for text figures on 
> the Web.) They're not some pointless, arbitrary form that someone came 
> up with one day.
> 

So many languages (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Sanskrit/Hindi) 
have no native concept of letter case that this is highly dubious and 
possibly irrelevant.

lay'tel SIvten

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