[84449] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Apr 17 12:09:15 2008
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:55:28 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Voragh:
>During my work at the University of Chicago Library, I've stumbled upon two
>interesting illustrated dictionaries of artificial/imaginary languages
>which, inter alia, discuss Klingon:
>
>Paolo Albani and Berlinghiero Buonarroti's _Aga magèra difùra: dizionario
>delle lingue immaginarie_. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994. ("Klingon, lingua
>dei" pp. 213-214.)
>
>Tim Conley and Stephen Cain's _Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic
>Languages_. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. ("Klingonese" and
>the other languages of Star Trek pp. 169-173; article includes a fairly
>complete bibliography.)
ghunchu'wI':
> >> Is there another word after "lingua dei"? That just means
> >> "language of the".
> >
> > Look again. "Klingon, lingua dei" already has another word present:
> > Klingon.
lay'tel SIvten:
>True, but that's an unusual wording for a dictionary title.
But not for a 1-page article on "Klingons, language of the". The title of
the 478-page dictionary itself is _Aga magèra difùra: dizionario delle
lingue immaginarie_. The Italian for Klingons seems to be just *Klingon*
not *gli klingoni* (or the like), at least in this book. Within the
article, Klingon language and people are both abbreviated "K." to save space.
I highly recommend both books; I spent a fascinating evening going through
them. The shorter Conley and Cain volume is better edited, though
restricted to fictional/imaginary languages -- i.e. those used or mentioned
in novels, movies, TV shows, etc. The Albani and Buonarroti volume
includes these as well as virtually all artificial/constructed/auxiliary
languages and their offshoots (Solresol, Volapuk, Esperanto/Ido,
Interlingua, etc., etc.), usually with brief example texts.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
