Re: Klingon

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 19:17:26 EST

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    Philippe Verdy scripsit:

    > OK. Then don't say it's Breton: It may occur in any Latin language, either
    > as a typo, or within specific technical usages such as variable names in a C
    > or Java program where a space cannot be used to separate words; here also
    > it's not the normal orthograph part of the language, but a notation to allow
    > more descriptive identifiers.

    In Irish, however, initial digraphs like "tS" and "hO" and "gC" *are* a standard
    part of the orthography, and constitute the normal capitalization convention:
    words beginning thus are capitalized on the second letter, not the first.

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