Re: Fwd: vowel notation; yet another visit Saul Epstein Mon, 16 Nov 1998 13:16:46 -0600 (Quotes Sorik of Vulcan: Monday, November 16, 1998 12:37 PM) >From: "Saul Epstein" > >>If people _really_ care, someone can sort through the >>data and make the rules for this explicit. I got part >>way through before I decided it was less important than >>elaborating the grammar and switched tracks. > >This one _really_ cares. At my next opportunity, I'll post the available phonetic data and my tentative, partial findings with regard to vowel phonology. >>Also, I seem to recall a, um, Klingonist suggesting >>using capitalization for Vulcan at some point in the >>past. The suggestion met mostly with disapproval, >>because people felt it would be hard to read... > >And you think what we have now isn't hard to read? I am not an objective judge of what others find hard to read. Having had to adapt to different transcriptions of different languages over time has rendered me sufficiently flexible that I find most semi-Latin transcriptions easy. I think what we have now has achieved a broad base of support, no matter how grudging in some cases. >The only problem I >have with whatever transcription we're using is that >it contradicts itself. (see the and ) If you have only one problem with it, I suggest you seek to evaluate that as basis for contentment. Each of us must reconcile herself to the collaborative nature of this project and abandon any expectation that her own ideals will be realized. Otherwise we'll make little progress. (As an aside, and need not be contradictory, as I tried to explain to you once. The underlying phonology of the "blade" or "palatal" consonants has not been established.) -- from Saul Epstein locus*planetkc,com - www,planetkc,com/locus "Surakri' ow'phacur the's'hi the's'cha'; the's'pharka the's'hi surakecha'." -- K'dvarin Urswhl'at