Re: new Klingon spelling

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> > I've seen
> > **Al-Quaeda with vomit-inducing frequency the last few years, and the
> Chinese
>
> IME, if they put a <u> in, they're going to get something else wrong too,
> and make something like **Al Quida.
We should just be keeping it in the original Arabic ...

Why, btw, the _ae_ in "Al-Qaeda"? It seems to represent the diphthong
otherwise transliterated variously as "ei", "ai", "ay" (Obeid, Ubaid, Ubayd,
to give three different translits I've seen in various places of the same
name); indeed, in Swedish media you usually see "al-Qaida".

                                                            Andreas