[86744] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: intuition and grammar (was Re: Ditransitive reflexives)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Sat Oct 31 15:12:34 2009
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <11451100-E6B6-4C9C-AC64-99D7F27C61C4@alcaco.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:10:12 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
A second issue is that if we change the language too much, we
essentially create a dialect that someone else who studied Okrand's
materials would not understand. The Klingon Institute was not created
in order to create or foster non-standard dialects of the Klingon
language.
Doq
On Oct 31, 2009, at 1:34 PM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> ja'pu' lay'tel SIvten:
>> It's safer to walk around a hole than to jump in. We don't know how
>> deep the
>> holes are, and they're difficult to illuminate.
>
> ja' clpachucki@comcast.net:
>> Yes, but if there's a problem, we need to fix it. It would only be
>> the smart, right, and beneficial thing to do. Fill the hole!
>
> It would be the presumptive and arrogant thing to do.
>
> We're just studying and using this language. We lack the authority
> to change or add to its grammar. In the fantasy context of Klingon
> being the language spoken by real Klingons, we don't have any
> information on what to fill the holes with. We do have information
> telling us that some holes are true gaps in the language and not just
> gaps in our knowledge.
>
> motlh qay'be' SengHey. Sengbe'. qaD neH. Hol yItI'Qo'. Hol
> yIlo'qu'.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
>
>
