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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2004, 14:09
In a message dated 1/2/2004 10:33:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:

>We're not dealing with English speakers reading something as English; >we're dealing with English speakers reading something that they know >is a foreign language. In that context, there is a very strong >tendency to Romancize the vowels to /A E i o u/ (since we've learned >from experience that this works tolerably well for many languages), >all of which are accurate for Klingon except for the /i/, hence the >capitalization
I admit I had not considered that. If that is indeed the kind of assumption most readers would make, then I see the point of the romanization. (I myself to not find the capitalization helpful, but I may not be typical.) It's still a bad idea to use "I" and "l" in a sans-serif font, even though the syllable structure ensures that it will be hard to confuse a consonant and a vowel. Doug