[tlhIngan Hol] A disturbing realization

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 08:22:05 PST 2016


lieven:
> This is obvious in the strange kind of writing

letters tIn DaDeltaHchugh vaj jIjatlhnIS, lettersvam vImuSHa' ! chaq,
lettersvammo' neH tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH. jIHvaD peQ'a' lurur
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qunnoH jan puqloD

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:56 PM,  <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
> Indeed it is true that more people can "write" Klingon than speak it (which
> I noticed again at the qepHom).
>
> But actually, in the first place, Klingon was never intended as a written
> language, but really only to be spoken - that is: on screen. This is obvious
> in the strange kind of writing, and also sometimes visible in situations
> where people ask whether a noun-noun word is written with or without space.
> When speaking the language there is no difference anyway, so Okrand never
> focused on that. At least not in earlier years, see the recent note on
> "wab(_)Do".
>
> Lieven.
>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. November 2016 um 08:24 Uhr
> Von: "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com>
> An: "tlhIngan Hol mailing list" <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> Betreff: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] A disturbing realization
> thank you for reminding this to me ! As silly as this obviously will
> sound, I have the impression that klingon is only a written language
> and not a spoken one..
>
> qunnoH jan puqloD
>
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