Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Doug Dee wrote:
> > I'm completely at a loss to see why it was necessary/useful to
capitalize "I"
> > (to somehow encourage people to pronounce it as /I/).
>
> 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.
Just curious. Has Okrand actually said this is the reason
for the capital letters?
--Ph. D.
"Clergy do more than lay people."