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Re: Suggestions for Marc Okrand: homophones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 13 04:10:38 1993
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From: Richard Kennaway <jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 20:37:32 BST
A.APPLEYARD writes:
>Best give
>Marc Okrand a floppy with my Klingon analyser on, so that he can see from its
>dictionary where all the homophones are, as (unlike in TKD) I have sorted all
>words and suffixes and prefixes, both original and addendum and tape, into one
>(ascii) alphabetical order.
Can anyone get a copy of this (both the analyser and the on-line vocab),
or would that raise copyright problems? Every now and then I'm tempted to
write such a thing myself, but lI'be' jagh HoHta'bogh vISuv 'e'.
(I ran into problems composing that Klingon proverb, but I'll let people
tear my grammar apart before explaining what I was trying to do. Here's
another attempt at expressing the same thought: jagh HoHta'bogh
vISuvtaHvIS pagh vIchav.)
>These
>remaining free roots have to cater for all commonly-used so-far-unallocated
>root meanings in science and technology etc and should be allocated wisely.
Why?
Klingon is a real language, of which we have a somewhat limited knowledge,
not a deliberately designed one. (At least, that's a basic rule of the
game, just as with the study of Tolkien's languages.) There is no reason
Klingon should be any freer of "defects" than any (other) natural language.
>Also, the Klingon that we have is the
>spaceman's variety, and what a spaceman uses a monosyllable for may have a
>longer name in other people's mouths: e.g. a spaceman says `peng` = "[photon]
>torpedo", but a diver may well say `peng` = "torpedo-shaped vehicle for a
>diver to ride astride", and say `loghmay'peng` or the like on the odd
>occasions when he does need to mention a space photon torpedo.
That's more like the spirit.
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