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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Robert Jung <robertmjung@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2004, 0:35
Tristan McLeay wrote:

> My understanding is that, because Klingon was designed > to be read by non-linguistically inclined people > (actors), Okrand used capital letters to lemind people of > the special pronunciation, even if the lowercase letter was > unused. >
You're kidding, right? I hope so! I mean, if he had to do that, Okrand should've used <I> only for the actors, and not the published version! I mean, who's ever heard of such a thing??! Capitalizing <i> when there's no need (or capitalizing letters to distinguish 'em from other letters)... It seems as though whoever invented Klingon's orthography saw no distinction between (un)capitalized letters and just picked letterforms out of a hat! --Robert