[84862] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Atlantean language
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchi'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Jul 25 10:08:10 2008
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1KMGWH-00015j-KS@sys23.mail.msu.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:06:25 -0400
From: ghunchi'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:11 AM, "Lawrence John Rogers" <roger158@msu.edu>
wrote:
> I hope the qepmey goes well.
tlhetlhlI'.
> I look forward to getting my membership number
> and dictionary in the mail. I hope it's enough to start the
> language. Does
> anyone have any constructive suggestions for a learner?
yapbej tlhIngan Hol mu'ghom. TKD is definitely sufficient for a
beginner -- that's what *everyone* uses at first.
I believe the best way to start learning Klingon is to read as much
well-formed text as you can find. Qo'noS QonoS http://www.kli.org/QQ
might be a good thing to look at.
> I don't actually call my developments the same thing as the language
> he made
> up. My first combination of his work and my additions is "New
> Atlantean".
> It's mostly sort-of compound words. That's the one I've made the
> biggest so
> far.
>
> The other is "Historical Atlantean" which attempts to figure out his
> method
> and then reproduce it in the creation of new words. Very time-
> consuming and
> since I'm not an Indo-Europeanist like David Solo (are any of you
> guys on
> Elfling?), I'd rather not devote large portions of my life to the
> endeavour.
> Plus, it just results in a language that's harder to learn and less
> canon-based (=less reference to the movie).
I'm confused. You're calling the method that emulates Okrand's work
"less canon-based" than the one you developed?
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
-- ghunchu'wI'
