Re: Hangul script type: (was Re: [OT] ANN: Site about scripts)

At 14:21 +0100 2001-11-09, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> I did, though, spend a long time trying to find *anything at all* on
>> "Klingon" scripts. There's nothing in Okrand's books as they were
>> available ca. 1993, nothing in any of the other ST books then
>> available;

And Okrand made it pretty clear that the Klingon writing system
wasn't simply alphabetic. (That would have been too easy.)

> > I know only that they were made of wedges something like Ugaritic
>> (because I saw the very first ST movie and they appeared on computer
>> screens for a moment). There may have been something in the "Technical
>> Manuals" associated with that movie, but they're long unavailable.
>
>I am sad to say that this piece of information was not lost. See on the web
>site of the "Klingon Language Institute":
>
> http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html

That page does not credit the Astra Image Corporation with the
original designs. Some pages in Sweden and Finland did (do a Google
search for AIC) and that's why my standardization proposals included
them.
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