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

On 08/09/05, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: Campaign for rational Klingon romanisation (was Re: Phoneme
>              system for my still-unnamed "Language X")
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> On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:26:06 -0400, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
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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?
>
> I concur fully.
Well, you know how it goes with SciFi fans. Anything written
officially becomes cannon. It's too bad Okrand didn't come out with a
scheme for everyone else. But, then again he probably didn't think it
would become anything big either.


>
> I encounter this new dialect every day. It seems you made a few spelling
> errors. Here:
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> OmG LIek DiD u Se Whut SHe wRottE tEh OthR DaY?
>
Eh, I don't know. I've seen it in all different formats. I've even
seen strict alternating caps. Of coruse, even when I was at the age
most of these people who are writing that do, I never wrote that way
except in a satirical or ironic way.


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