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Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon orthography (was: Okrand at qep'a')
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:52:56 EDT

In a message dated 6/23/2009 19:13:52 Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:21, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Changing normal Klingon to all upper or all lowercase does not make  
> > a text unreadable. Ambiguity is introduced, but it's trivial.  There  
> > are very few words that are distinguished by "q" vs. "Q".  These are  
> > resolved by context. So this "problem" isn't really a problem.
> 
> Why bother to make the distinction at all, then?
> 

This seems to be so obvious I can't believe you asked it.
Because they are different phonemes and not allophones.

lay'tel SIvten

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