Majuscules and minuscules

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, all -- I now have 4 or 5 languages that distinguish proper
nouns other than by capital letters -- a couple extinct and a couple
"artificial" (although spoken or written today), but so what.

Joel

At 11/19/2009 10:28 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>FWIW, Klingon: The only official script is the roman(ization) that the
>inventor, Dr. Marc Okrand, used in The Klingon Dictionary. (The angular
>characters used in the shows and movies have never been assigned values by
>Paramount and are intended purely as visual effect, although the Klingon
>Language Institute has assigned values and created a font.) Okrand's
>transcription uses case distinctively: e.g., q is a voiceless uvular stop,
>while Q is a voiceless uvular affricate. So Klingon text does not use case
>to mark sentences or proper nouns at all. Klingonists -- Klingon language
>fans -- often use an asterisk before a name: HoD *Qanqor 'Captain Krankor'.
>
>m a m
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