[Tlhingan-hol] Colors used in writing Klingon

[Robyn Stewart]

Meanings of red text in English that I know ...

in the Christian New Testament words attributed to Jesus

if numbers, an amount owing

On 2012-07-13, at 15:05, "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone recently told me that writing Old English in red conveys a certain meaning and wanted to know if there were colors to use or avoid when writing Klingon; specifically pIqaD.
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> I have never heard of colors of text having a meaning in Klingon or any language, but I most often see Klingon written in black, red, and yellow.
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> As he was wanting to use a deep red, I told him to go ahead with it.
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> I also remarked that I had never seen Klingon written in green, and that visualizing green pIqaD seemed wrong to me.
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> Further pondering on the subject has lead me to reject blue as well.
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> I would tilt my head at orange, but I would accept it, hesitantly.
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> My next step is to actually write Klingon in different colors (as opposed to just visualizing the text) to see if the prejudice is still present.
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> ~'anan naHQun
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> ~Michael Roney, Jr.
> Professional Klingon translator
> webOS developer
> 
> -- Sent from my "Franken" Palm Pre 2
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