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

From:B. Garcia <madyaas@...>
Date:Thursday, September 8, 2005, 21:26
On 08/09/05, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:

> > 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! >
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? -- Remember Kids, only you can prevent misdirected replies! Pay attention to the "send to" line! Sig: Well, it's not my purpose to break your spirit I'm not really interested in what's in your heart I don't want you to fall in love now, so please don't start

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Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
B. Garcia <madyaas@...>
Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>