[tlhIngan Hol] why we shouldn't do transcriptions

[MorphemeAddict]

Names can be marked in different ways. In Chinese and Japanese foreign
names are sometimes underscored (especially in the Bible). In braille and
the Shavian alphabet et al., there is a "capitalization dot" that precedes
the name. Klingon could do the same.

lay'tel SIvten


On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:35 AM SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 2/27/2020 10:25 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
>
> SuStel:
> > They do show why Klingon so
> > desperately needs "spelling reform" that
> > will never happen
>
> What is spelling reform ? Do you mean, transliteration rules ?
>
> I put the term in quotations because it's not exactly an accurate
> description.
>
> Spelling reform is when people try to get everyone to agree to spell words
> differently. For instance, Noah Webster famously caused a lot of American
> spellings to change from British spellings, including changing *flavour*
> and *colour* to *flavor* and *color,* and changing many instances of the
> suffix *-ise* to *-ize.*
>
> The Klingon writing system we get from TKD isn't spelling, per se, but
> transcription of spoken Klingon. It's not meant to represent actual Klingon
> writing; it's just a one-for-one representation of the phonemes of Klingon.
>
> By "spelling reform," I mean that the fixed case of the transcription
> system makes it impossible to capitalize. If writing in the transcription
> system didn't involve letter cases, we could capitalize as we do in
> English, and so mark proper nouns.
>
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