Re: Fwd: vowel notation; yet another visit Rob Zook Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:51:47 -0600 At 09:42 AM 11/14/98 PST, you wrote: > > >>From: "Sorik of Vulcan" >>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 to notate the sound in Tuvok, we could simply >>capitalize the "u". Then we have 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 s aren't always set apart >>from the s and so forth. >> >>Any thoughts on that? (Stupid question, huh?) >> >>-Sorik >> > >Would it harm any of you to give a response? Probably not :) We actually discussed this a little bit quite a while back. Since Marketa, has already finalized what vowels to use (at least I think she has), why rehash it again? Besides, the only one's who use this expression of different vowel phonemes with mixed case is Klingon. Having us use this method after the fact could be misinterpreted as a lack of imagination. Rob Z.