<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:30 AM, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_1556309999298217495moz-cite-prefix">On 7/3/2018 5:44 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The
Latin-script writing system we use for Klingon is a phonetic
transcription. We don't actually know how to "spell" anything in
any native Klingon writing system.</blockquote>
</span><p>Alas, that is no longer true. Thanks to the intervention of
certain Klingonists, Klingon has appeared in decipherable writing
on <i>Star Trek: Discovery,</i> in the one-to-one phonemic
alphabet invented by another certain Klingonist. This alphabet is
directly translatable to our Latin-letter transcription. We are
stuck with this most boring of writing systems being on-screen
canon, at least for the <i>Discovery</i> Klingons, and no
explanation of why the in-universe compilers of <i>The Klingon
Dictionary</i> had such a hard time understanding it.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Klingon has also appeared in different forms as well, the vast majority of them are completely undecipherable. If all the writing systems shown in Trek are valid, then I can see why the in-universe compilers of the Klingon Dictionary would have a hard time. Maybe they were able to decipher the pIqaD that maps sounds to single letters, but they still haven't unlocked all the secrets of the writing system. I'd compare this to being able to figure out Hiragana, but still having no idea how Kanji works. There's no way to intuit one system from the other. </div><div><br></div><div>qurgh</div></div></div></div>