Re: vowel notation; yet another visit
Whittaker, Pat 
Mon, 16 Nov 98 09:54:00 M


>>>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
>

Would it harm any of you to give a response?<<

By this, would you mean that all capital vowels are pronounced with the long 
vowel sound as opposed to the short vowel sound?

Selek (way in over his head)