Paul Bennett wrote:
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> Carsten Becker wrote:
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> > That's why I don't like Klingon romanization.
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> Pet peeve. There's no reason Klingon needs mixed case:
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> a b ch d e gh kh i j l m n ng o p q qh r s t tl u v y w '
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> Even that's needless, but it's a heck of an improvement, IMO.
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> A less-redundant scheme is:
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> a b c d e g k i j l m n ng o p q x r s t tl u v y w '
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> I'm not sure I'm as big a fan of that, though.
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!
I still don't like it.
--Ph. D.