From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 12:59:24 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
>> It strikes me that the controversy about Klingon has more to do with
>> its fictional origins than number of users. Is this not true?
>
>
> I don't think so. We will certainly encode Tengwar and Cirth, which
> have corpora of documents in them. Klingonists universally prefer
> Latin, and it was the judgement of the UTC that the usage criteria
> hadn't been met.
And of course, there's all that discussion on Tolkien languages
online... all of which used Latin transliteration (with slightly varying
standards too: accented vowels, doubled vowels, tripled sometimes, etc
etc. "More than one orthography"). This gets back to "everything's a
code of Latin" again.
~mark
P.S. Make no mistake. To the extent that there are "degrees" of this,
while I think Klingon should get encoded, I certainly think tengwar and
cirth et al deserve to be encoded "more" than Klingon does.
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