[87177] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: frasier Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Wed Nov 25 20:21:13 2009
In-Reply-To: <f60fe000911251714s6338bdfao4fb44614951bb87f@mail.gmail.com>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:19:21 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Ya, the only parallel I can think of is that Yiddish is often object
initial; e.g., "Coffee I like." In a less enlightened age, this
structure was actually called Y-movement; that is, "Yiddish movement."
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:14, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Steven Lytle <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've always heard that the original language (or the language it was
>> supposed to be translated into) was Hebrew, not Yiddish.
>
> Indeed. Yiddish is an everyday language, not a ritual one. Bar
> mitzvahs are full of Hebrew, and such rituals are part of what kept
> that language alive in any sense before it was revived in the 19th
> century.
>
> Also, tlhIngan Hol doesn't sound very much like Hebrew or Yiddish, but
> it sounds much more like the former than the latter, which is closer
> to German.
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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