[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word Search

[SuStel]

On 4/7/2016 1:51 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:55 AM, lojmIttI'wI'nuv
> <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even in the Klingon dictionary, you can’t see the difference between
>> uppercase “eye” and lowercase “ell”.
> That's true only of the Appendix. In the grammatical sketch and
> vocabulary lists of the dictionary proper, they are distinct.
>
>> I’m amazed that you guys are bothered
>> by this. It’s one of the first things I got used to working with the
>> language.
> Are you aware of the context here? In a word search puzzle, displaying
> different letters that you can't tell from one another is definitely a
> bothersome problem.
>
>> It’s positionally obvious which is which, even if they are identical.
> I agree, except for a couple of corner cases. Is {mar!!} a name
> {MARLI} or a sentence {MARIL}? I can't come up with any words fron the
> lexicon that would exhibit this ambiguity, but I regularly have to
> pause and do a careful inspection whenever I see {gheyIl} mentioned.

And woe betide anyone who comes across a phrase like *jIllI' 
v**IlI'lI'*/I am transmitting your neighbor/ (whatever that means).

-- 
SuStel
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