Re: Submitted for your approval... 
Randall Raemon 
Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:43:02 -0500

In message <article,504*vulcan-linguistics,shikahr,com,inter,net>
"Saul Epstein" writes:

> The transcription here is entirely lower-case for now, though for
> slightly different reasons than in the case of Klingon. Rather than
> employ upper-case letters to express special sound distinctions, VALD
> has adapted some letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet
> which have no upper-case counterparts. In the future, we will either
> devise some upper-case forms for these, or switch to an actual Vulcan
> script.

Let me ask a somewhat unrelated question, probably reflecting my
lack of linguistics education: why do letter case differences (need
to) exist? Is it the circumstance of working within the confines
of an alphabet, as opposed to a more pictorical form of language
representation?

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