Re: Campaign for rational Klingon romanisation (was Re: Phoneme system for my still-unnamed "Language X")
| From: | B. Garcia <madyaas@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 8, 2005, 21:26 |
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On 08/09/05, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:
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> This has been discussed on this list before.
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> 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!
>
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:
OmG LIke DiD yoU SeE WhAt SHe wRotE thE OthER DaY?
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