Fwd: vowel notation; yet another visit
Sorik of Vulcan 
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:42:28 PST



>From: "Sorik of Vulcan" <surak_1*hotmail,com>
>To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net
>Subject: vowel notation; yet another visit
>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:10:00 PST
>Reply-To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net
>
>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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