Am 04.04.2022 um 20:08 schrieb De'vID:
But they're *not* identical. They're very clearly distinct in Okrand's books.
In addition, remember that Okrand wrote his first manuscript using a typewriter, where the difference between lay and 'It is always very visible. So he probably did not think much of that problem at first.
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.
Other than Okrand, but not other than TKD: look at the "List of useful expressions" using a sans serif font. Very bad idea.
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.
Just for the record: the first print of TKW had such an error. On page 55, the word {vanglu'taHvIS} had an upper case I (eye) were it should have been lower case l (ell). — I don't know what happened there. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/TheKlingonWay