Re: Campaign for rational Klingon romanisation (was Re: Phoneme system for my still-unnamed "Language X")

I'm not sure which msg in this thread to reply to ....

On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:26:06 -0700, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
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>On 08/09/05, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:
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>> This has been discussed on this list before.
>>
>> I don't like mixed-case romanizations either. But the reasoning
>> is said to be that the lowercase letters are pronounced close to
>> their usual values in English. The capital letters are quite different.
>> They were meant to serve as a guide to the actors who would be
>> speaking Klingon in the movies. The capital letters mean Warning:
>> these letters are not pronounced as in English!
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>Well, that's fine of course for actors, but I wonder why it should've
>ever been considered for print publications and the like? Klingon
>Latin alphabet looks like what teenagers write when they're in chat
>rooms:
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>OmG LIke DiD yoU SeE WhAt SHe wRotE thE OthER DaY?
I shouldn't be offended, but I still _feel_ offended, since at least one my
orthographies uses mixed case: 'Yemls uses all 52 lower and upper case
characters.

Also at some point this thread started to get a whiff of Esperanto
accusative N to it. Probably at the start, since Klingon is a done deal,
like Esperanto.

nameless non-person

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