[85815] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon orthography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jun 23 17:33:45 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A413350.4070903@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:32:29 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 23 Jun 2009, at 20:56, David Trimboli wrote:
>> Of course he can! He could, for instance, implement a spelling reform
>> and publish a third edition of his dictionary. Heck, I'd be happy to
>> typeset it for him.
>
> I would be the first in line to buy it, but I know it's just not up to
> Marc Okrand to decide this; it's up to Paramount.
An author can write whatever books he wants. Who owns the word
"Qapla'"? Okrand? Paramount? I know that Paramount owns Klingons.
Language is something else.
> And they're never going to do another one, not unless Klingons
> become really, really popular again.
Paramount didn't write the Klingon Dictionary. Okrand did. Maybe they
paid him to. Maybe he did it on his own and they get a cut. I don't
know what the arrangements were. It was most likely Simon and Schuster
ponied up to publish the actual book. Or?
> (If another Abrams TREK features Klingons speaking true Okrandian
> Klingon, maybe it would happen. Otherwise, no.)
I can hardly imagine Paramount forbidding a publication if it didn't
cost them anything and if the usual arrangements were made.
So that's not a reason not to at least look at good vs. bad options
for spelling reform.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
