On 5/23/2019 12:13 PM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
You have weird apostrophes there. I suggest simple ' or fancy ’, but never ‘.
Am 23.05.2019 um 19:56 schrieb SuStel:
I can't help myself:
What difference does it make?
Okay, since you asked, I'd like to elaborate. But first, of course, anyone can write the way they want, I don't want to convince anyone of writing any specificic way. I'm also not going to be ironic or cynical or so, only explanining my opinion, but also listing some neutral but clear facts. First: Yes, indeed, the apostrophe is just a little piece of a small line, and written by hand it doesn't make a difference if it's a straight line or a curved one. Also on small screens, nobody will see a difference between ‘ and ’ and '. What I address here is not about Klingon, it's about typesetting, i.e. writing on computers and screens. First, this ‘ or ’ is NOT an apostrophe, it's a single quotation mark in the first place. It's somewhat similar to doing "this" or “that”, but just ‘single’. But, there's a big "but" here: Graphic designers prefer to use a so-called typographic apostrophe, which looks identical to the right single quotation mark (and also uses the same symbol), i.e. it resembles a small nine. This has been used in TKD, KGT, TKW, and many other sources - including Okrand who uses it in his mails. It can be written on windows computers by holding down the Alt-key + 0146, HTML uses the code #8217. The apostrophe is the RIGHT single quotation mark, but not the left one. It doesn't only look very ugly when you read a text like {QI‘tu’ ‘och vI’el‘a’} where the quotes jump back and forth, but it's also just the wrong symbol. That's the difference it makes. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Apostrophe