[1766] in tlhIngan-Hol
How about Romulan?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 19 18:11:54 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: cleggp@rpi.edu
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 18:08:03 EDT
>> We GOTTA get Okrand on the list; I'm sure if he were to "okay" various
>> things we suggest, we'd have a huge volume of Klingon information... :)
>>
>> ...Paul
>
> Even then, we'd have problems. He needs to PUBLISH, so whatever is
>addressed here is available to tlhInganpu' without Internet access. My
>suspicion is that he knows that. He has been quoted as saying that he has to
>be careful what he says because he has come to realize that casual remarks on
>his part can have unexpectedly profound consequences.
>
> My suspicion is that he was mostly having fun when he made up tlhIngan
>Hol and despite the nicer aspects of the language, there was a limit to how
>seriously he was taking himself when he did it. The intensity of his
>followers has surprised him. I suspect it might even be a wee little bit
>scarey...
>
>-- charghwI'
How about we start our OWN net language? Maybe call it Romulan, just for
keeping with the Star Trek theory... :)
Wow, THAT would be a major undertaking, but it could be kinda fun... :)
...Paul
'Course, we'd have even fewer people speaking our language than Klingon,
and possibly less than Esperanto... :)
