[Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?

David Trimboli david at trimboli.name
Tue Oct 4 12:46:40 PDT 2011


Is it Klingon Monopoly written *by* Klingons or *for* Klingons? Or for
Terran enthusiasts of Klingons? Doesn't this make a difference? Or do you
accept the poor grammar of a bad foreign translation of something as
"official"?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Badgley [mailto:joshbadgley at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:11 PM
> To: qunchuy at alcaco.net ; tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?
> 
> 
> I though pIqaD became canon with Monopoly...
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:57:26 pm
> To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy at alcaco.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?
> 
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David Trimboli <david at trimboli.name>
> wrote:
> > "tlh" is *not* a Klingon letter. It is three lower-case Latin letters
> > forming a trigraph to represent a Klingon *sound*.
> 
> Fine, {tlh} is a Romanized equivalent of whatever single Klingon letter
> represents that sound. While I accept the distinction, I think that's a
> distinction without a difference. As Mr. Everson should know well, the
> Klingon glyph representing that sound *is* a single letter.
> 
> > There is a symbol that is
> > sometimes used to represent the sound of "tlh," but will never be more
> > than semi-official.
> 
> For better or worse, I think the use of that symbol in EuroTalk's "Talk
Now!
> Learn Klingon" program pushes it from semi-offical to truly official.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
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