Re: Fwd: vowel notation; yet another visit Sorik of Vulcan Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:32:49 PST >Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 00:51:47 -0600 >To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net >From: Rob Zook >Subject: Re: Fwd: vowel notation; yet another visit >Reply-To: vulcan-linguistics*shikahr,com,inter,net > >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. > I had not considered the..,social implications that would have. I still think that _that_ misinterpretaion would be a small price to pay for avoid many others. -Sorik ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www,hotmail,com