<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 17:35, Will Martin <<a href="mailto:willmartin2@mac.com">willmartin2@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Note that Okrand was somewhat tech-averse when he wrote TKD and was not consulted about typeface. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you sure about that? I recall that he specified to the publisher that Klingon text was always to be in bold serif, while the corresponding English translations should be italicised, in all of his books.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">It wasn’t his idea to make the “eye†and “ell†identical, </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But they're *not* identical. They're very clearly distinct in Okrand's books. The problem was introduced when *other* people started writing Klingon in sans serif, and yet *other* people copied that text visually, like a game of telephone. </div><div><br></div><div>There are any number of instances where the pIqaD glyph for {lay} appears where one expects {'It}, which could only have happened if someone read Klingon written in sans serif and then reproduced it by typing it back out.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">and they would not have been if the publisher had chosen a better font. He let “the experts†make that choice for the book, and it certainly was not his choice to go sans serif to remove the clues as to which is which.<div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, it’s interesting that Klingon speakers have no problem with it because the limits of the phonology make it obvious which is which.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>