[87062] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: pu'jIn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Nov 24 19:29:48 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:24 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <23662.14889.qm@web82603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> --- On Tue, 11/24/09, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> This tends to happen a lot when trying to come up with ways of
>>> translating scientific or professional jargon. One should always
>>> try to eliminate hindsight words from one's Klingon.
>>
>> Who? Why? Where? Does Okrand say this somewhere? Or is this your
>> own pearl of wisdom?
>
> 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. Since the second
> reason involves humility, I don't expect you to understand it.
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