[tlhIngan Hol] Out of curiosity..

[Luciano Montanaro]

Wouldn't X work for H? As a mnemonic, think of Greek Chi.
Or J, (pronounced as in Spanish)


On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:47 PM Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
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> > On Feb 21, 2019, at 12:13, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > how would we distinguish between the q and Q ?
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> The one other place where case matters is in distinguishing between ng+H and n+gh. I don’t think there are any word pairs where the difference would cause confusion, but that doesn’t mean there never will be.
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> For example, nobody is going to think that NENGHEP is nengHep, or that VENGHOM is venghom if they know the words nenghep and vengHom.
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> Using qh for Q could be problematic in a similar way for distinguishing q+H from Q. For example, is baqha' baqHa' or baQa'?
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> An encoding like xifan hol or a system with diacritics would avoid these issues.
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> FWIW I found SuStel’s example texts perfectly readable, but it does seem that old habits are hard to break (I saw a “DaH” in there rather than “Dah”, for example.) Also, I wonder, since qaghwI' can’t exactly be capital or lowercase, if the vowel following a qaghwI' in a word that begins with qaghwI' should be the one to be capitalized instead. For example:
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> Qu' dataghdi' 'Aktu' Mellota' je tikaw.
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