[84885] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: idea for writing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence John Rogers)
Sat Jul 26 14:10:55 2008
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From: "Lawrence John Rogers" <roger158@msu.edu>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:10:05 -0400
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Okay, I wouldn't be "finding a pattern" or imposing one. We know in
real-life that it's all gobbldy-gook because the show producers just want
the look, not the meaning.
I'd be taking the characters of the gobbldy-gook and creating a writing
system out of it.
The idea that it's likely not standard Klingon but military speak is very
Okham's Razor: it makes sense, historically and logically. Armies use
special jargon because they represent an organized specialization of
intelligent societies. However, I can't go to Planet Klingon and find
Klingon language in Klingon languages because they don't exist. But this
Okuda goobdy-gook does and it fits within the Star Trek Mythos in which I
plan to go a-walking.
