[83923] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: DawI' - ghetwI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jan 10 14:56:46 2008
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:53:52 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <52780F82-3F6A-4BFB-8EE9-126FA47736D9@insightbb.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Voragh:
> > ...used for years within the Klingonist community, having been
> > coined IIRC by the KLI-sponsored Klingon Shakespeare Restoration
> > Project (KSRP) and thus carries something of the blessings of the
> > KLI (if any).
ghunchu'wI':
>No such blessing should be inferred. The Klingon Language Institute
>does not define proper usage. That is an explicit policy.
Which is why I wrote "(if any)".
Nevertheless, this translation has been published and sold by Simon &
Schuster, under license from Paramount (who holds the copyright to
Klingon), which implies a sort of imprimatur - de facto if not de
jure. The word is out there, like it or not.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
