[87061] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: pu'jIn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Tue Nov 24 19:26:16 2009
In-Reply-To: <23662.14889.qm@web82603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:24:27 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> The KLI's strong opposition to anyone but Okrand coining new words (which is what a compund word would be but a N-N combination would not) is based on the practical recognition that, lacking a central authority like an Academe Klingonaise, this would quickly lead to mutually-unintelligible dialects in a community too small to sustain any, and also as a sign of respect to Marc Okrand.
I'm not coining a new word, I'm using the noun-noun construction just
as Okrand describes it, to create a completely reasonable
circumlocution for the concept.
> Since the second reason involves humility, I don't expect you to understand it.
Wow, really? From he of the totally worthless and rude responses?
That is saying something indeed.
