[722] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: editorial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 29 14:39:11 1993
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From: "DAVID R. BARRON" <71603.2241@CompuServe.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 29 Apr 93 13:10:39 EDT
With all respects to A.Appleyard who has shown an ambitious effort to
explore tlhIngan Hol I want to emphisize that the language is mostly
complete in its grammar.`
I would like to see the duty of this lists members focused on
descriptive linguistics and education.
Making up of new grammar and vocabulary I wish to leave to Marc Okrand.
Clearly saying certain things correctly in tlhIngan Hol can be an
exercize in mental gymnastics, like making comparatives and superlatives,
but even though it is awkward it is still there clearly written for all to
use and master.
Constucted languages throughout history have always been subject to the
assualts from those who wish to prescribe a better grammar or syntax and
many of these langages have fallen in ruin because of the battle.
While I admit many suggestions may sound good and that it is very
difficult for most of us to translate "He's acting more like a diplomat
than doing his duty of a thief." I would like to leave any rewrites,
additions and addendums to Hol Qang, Marc Okrand.
It seems that the people who CAN help us most with "new discoveries" in
the Klingon language are the publishers of Simon & Schuster. If they were
certain that new books about tlhIngan Hol would sell they WOULD publish
them. So this whole letter is boiling down to a request that ALL the
members of this list write to the Star Trek editor of SImon & Schuster,
Kevin Ryan,
c/o Pocket Books
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY 10020 USA
(212)698-7087, FAX (212)632-8083
and let him know that we need more information on Klingon Language from
its creator Marc Okrand.
Thus ends my rant.
David Barron
