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

Jeffrey Jones wrote:
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> 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.
Well, yes - or perhaps even Esperanto's diacritics. I guess most of us
could come up with orhographies for E-o & Klingon that avoided
diacritics and mixed-case. But we know it ain't going to happen. And,
indeed, why should it?

Surely, the Esperantine diacritics & the accusative -n are the business
of the Esperanto community? Likewise, Klingon orthography is IMO the
concern of Dr Marc Okrand & the Klingon community.

Indeed, surely the example of Ido (which broke from Esperanto in 1907)
shows that the result of  such reforms to 'done deals' is likely to be
simply the creation of another conlang?

Now, if you really like reforming orthographies etc, you could always
propose a 5th version of Cornish to add to the four (at the last count)
existing competing versions :-)

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