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

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 03:00:31 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> writes:
>> >...
>> >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.
>
>No, please don't be offended -- that was obviously not intended.
>
>Anyway, I think it's also a different case: if Klingon used all 52
>characters, it would be fine art again, probably even for most people
>who usually find mixed case unelegant. :-) And after all, X-Sampa/CXS
>uses mixed case, too.  Imagine using (letter) digraphs plus
>diacritics!  Oh, no!
>
>**Henrik
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I also developed a romanization for 'Yemls in addition to the normal
syllabary. It can be written with only lower case + apostrophe for stress
marking. A funny thing happened earlier. I was making up some examples in
the romanization, and kept ending up using the syllabary instead. So I
decided to take the easy way and first do the examples with the syllabary
and afterwards add the romanization.