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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Friday, December 13, 2002 :::
I confess to being the über-geek who charged Jonah dork-demerits -- is that really a punishment? -- for his Klingon orthography. He also received a few incorrect corrections, and asserts:
All of these words are phonetic transliterations, so whatever english spelling I use for making the sound of another language are ok.
Since I've already jettisoned any dignity I might have, I might as well spill everything I know on this. Jonah's assertion actually isn't true -- the roman alphabet for Klingon is definitive. Michael Okuda, the artistic designer of Star Trek, didn't want his creativity constrained by some linguist, so any cool-looking characters you see on Klingon computer-displays in Star Trek are just randomly selected strings from the font he invented, and have no connection to Okrand's language.
I have The Klingon Dictionary in front of me, and it confirms "Qapla'".
UPDATE: To backpedal slightly, this knowledge comes more from an interest in languages than from an obsession with Star Trek...
::: posted by Steven at 5:40 PM
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