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

[Josh Badgley]

Forgive any impertinence on my part, but can't we just have fun with the Eurotalk software? As a new learner,all of this back and forth about the most ridiculous points is offputting.  If you want Klingon to grow and prosper, you need new speakers.  And if you suck the fun out of learning the language, you are going to give potential newcomers the impression that this is nothing more than an exercise in nerdishness by a bunch of obsessive losers.  And while I know thats not true, other may not.  Just a thought. 
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 5:30:58 am
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
From: Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 2 letter language code for Klingon?

On 4 Oct 2011, at 21:41, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:

> In the typewriter-compatible transcription system, "tlh" represents a sound. In the phonetic transcription embodied in the Unicode PUA, (the pIqaD squiggly-Y-looking thing sometimes found on the X key in pre-Unicode Klingon fonts) represents the same sound. Each is the equivalent of the other.

Fine.

> The trigraph isn't a translation of the Klingon symbol any more than the IPA [t??]  is a translation of
> either; they all represent a sound.

For "translation" read "representation". 

> In Klingon, that sound is represented by a single letter, and in The Klingon Dictionary the {tlh} symbol is considered explicitly to be its own letter.

For "symbol" read "trigraph". 

> If someone wants to point out that students of typography call the "tlh" letter a trigraph because it is composed by abutting three otherwise separate symbols, fine.

Not "students of typography". Linguists and anyone using character set technology use precise terminology because it makes g