[84827] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Atlantean language
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (naHQun)
Wed Jul 16 17:58:41 2008
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:57:26 -0400
From: naHQun <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <E1KHLko-0006GY-Us@sys19.mail.msu.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Lawrence John Rogers <roger158@msu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Klingon language speakers,
>
> Can someone help me contact Dr. Lawrence Schoen or Dr. Marc Okrand? I have
> questions about Okrand's Atlantean and Klingon.
Lawrence started a thread on the Tao Te Ching earlier this month, I'd
check the header on that message for his current e-mail.
The masses don't have access to MO directly. We go through Maltz.
Maltz comes to us.
> I run this Yahoo Group called "The Atlantean Language Group" as of last
> Does anyone have any questions about the Atlantean language?
HIja'. 'ach tlhIngan Hol 'ach naDev.
> He didn't develop it further because the movie didn't do as well as hoped.
>
> We're a smaller group than the KLI. The group has 162 members but I think
{snip}
> Does anyone know how many the Vulcan Language Institute has or how to
> contact them?
I last stumbled across them by a random web search.
> How many does KLI have? Seems like a lot. We should form an
> Orkand Language Alliance or something.
>
Not aware of anything besides estimates.
>The
> development is rather easier than Klingon as I just make compounds out of
> canonical words. Hence, there's less of a need for reference materials or
> authority. It's more artificial but easy. I've also started on a
> development that constructs new words based on Okrand's method. I don't
> think it'll get as well developed as the canonical one, though. People just
> seem to want something Atlantean-like they can write in.
That is deeply disturbing. It is no longer the language MO created.
~naHQun
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