--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 1/2/2004 3:59:35 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> >The Klingon grammar (Marc Okrand) is readily
> >available. Could try Amazon or B&N or similar.
> >Nifty language; ugly romanisation.
>
> That's for sure. It was particularly unfortunate to
> use lower case "l" and
> upper case "I"
> HolQeD, the journal of the KLI, for some unknown
> reason, prints Klingon in a
> sans-serif font in which those two are nearly
> indistinguishable.
>
> They should really drop all the useless capitals.
> None of them make a
> distinction except "Q" vs. "q", and one of those
> could just as easily have been "k".
>
> Doug
The best thing about tlhIngan Hol is the extensive use
of puns in the vocabulary. Many of the best puns are
based on Leave It to Beaver!
Adam
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Fached il prori ul pañeveju mutu chu djul atexindu.
-- Carrajena proverb