vowel notation; yet another visit
Sorik of Vulcan 
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:10:00 PST

A post a week or so ago on the main list partially written in Klingon 
got me thinking... amazing, I know :)

They seem to capitalize certain characters and leave others lower case.  
Whatever their reason for doing this is irrelevent, but it gave me an 
idea.  I'll throw it out and see what you think.

Instead of using an <uu> to notate the sound in Tuvok, we could simply 
capitalize the "u".  Then we have <T><U><v><ok>  It would easily give 
the reader of Vulcan words in standard english text a way to decipher 
how it should sound.  I say that mainly because neither notation we 
recognize is currently used with absolute dedication, nor are the vowels 
sounds always distinguished; that is, the <i>s aren't always set apart 
from the <ii>s and so forth.

Any thoughts on that? (Stupid question, huh?)

-Sorik

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