[467] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: ngermey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 25 11:47:51 1993
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From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 00:45:51 -0500
marq--
bIbelHa' vIneHbe'bej (tI muSopmoHchugh vay' jIbelHa' jIH je {{:-). vaj
vay' DaneHbogh yISop.
I agree with going for the more concise version, I just pointed out the
other options for the sake of discussion. As for preaching linguistic
right and wrong, I don't do it out of an ivory tower sense-- just the
opposite. I *want* tlhIngan Hol to be a day-to-day use kind of thing.
Since right now its speakers are few and widely scattered, I simply feel
it's essential that we all stick to the rules as much as possible so
that we all are speaking the same language. Eventually, it *will* have
to change and grow (in fact, we wait eagerly for every little drip of
growth Okrand provides us), but first we need to get people fluent with
what we have. For instance, I think that the 'e'mo' thing that comes
up from time to time will eventually become kosher, officially or not.
But right now I think there's a lot of people still coming to grips with
the generic use of 'e', so for the relative handful of us that have it
down to race ahead with modifications is only gonna leave people in the
dust. Oh well, didn't mean to run on in this long side thing, just want
folx to understand my motives. I know there was a smiley in marq's posting
and it was all meant in fun, but still, I don't want people to think I
harp on grammatic correctness just to be pedantic. I have had personal
experience with trying to communicate with folx who took it upon themselves
to modify the language to their liking, and I couldn't understand them
for squat. I'm very interested in not seeing that become widespread.
I promise my next posting will have a better Klingon-to-English ratio {{:-)
--Krankor
