Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote:
> Er...you _do_ realize that Marc Okrand deliberately specified capital
> letters to deliberately make Klingon ugly? In other words, it's a
> feature, not a bug.
        He *purposefully* made it ugly?
        I always thought it was an alternative to diacritics.
        Purposefully?
        Ok......

 On that topic, does anyone know anything about Marc Okrand? I've heard he used
to teach at USF New College (I go to school and work at the USF Tampa (main)
branch). Was he any good. Has he written anything else interesting? Is Klingon
his "claim to fame"?
 (I know he also did Atlantean from Disney's movie. Frankly, the language
aspect was the one thing about that movie that made me cringe. Atlanteans speak
PIE (ok...), so by extension they are fluent in *all* daughter languages (not
ok...). The "Teach Yourself Atlantean" on the DVD was sooo veeery laaame.)

From: H. S. Teoh   Monday, March 24, 2003 4:08 PM
> There *are* no bugs. Just lots of unintentional features. :-)
> T
> --
> Beta-testing: we are too incompetent to test our product;
> let the customer do it for us.
        Someone was in a Microsoft Mood.
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