[88067] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: SV: A thought ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fiat Knox)
Mon Jul 26 12:46:15 2010
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:40:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E8771D3A00@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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Just keep it simple. The basic TKD, with the Addendum absorbed into the main body and some new canon terms, perhaps some new grammar / syntax, thrown in.
If it takes five years to launch a book, this project should have been in the works three years ago.
> I like the idea, but it strikes me as
> though any 2012 release would have to be rushed.
> Perhaps it would be worth to start work on a longer,
> five-year project to create a book which contains not only
> the reference grammar, but also documents the history of
> Klingon, from James Doohan and John M. Ford to qep'a'
> cha'maH and [perhaps] Star Trek XII, with details on the
> first qep'a' and qepHom, profiles of the first Klingonists,
> the Shakespeare Restoration Project and the founding of such
> other organizations such the Interstellar Languages
> School. It could also contain extracts from HolQeD and
> various online discussions on this mailing list, Livejournal
> and various forums across the internets.
> I believe "The Grammarian's Desk" by Captain Krankor and
> Lawrence M. Schoen was something similar to this, but I
> haven't seen it for myself so I don't really know.
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> I just finished "In the Land of Invented Languages" by
> Arika Okrent, and I personally am hungry for more conlang
> history. That being said, it may be that the
> demographic to which a book such as the one I'm suggesting
> is too small to make the project feasible.
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> Sincerely,
> B.J. Felix Malmenbeck
> tlhIngan Hol qun ghojwI' po'be'wI' je
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> Skickat: den 26 juli 2010 17:35
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> Ämne: A thought ...
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> The first "blue book" TKD came out in 1985. This year, the
> 25th anniversary of its publication, has gone unmarked.
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> "Conversational Klingon" and the "white book" TKD came out,
> IIRC, in 1992. We still have time to petition Pocket Books
> to reissue TKD. Perhaps re-covered, perhaps with some or all
> of the original addendum's terms incorporated into the main
> body.
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> Perhaps if something came out for 2012, we could celebrate
> the 20th anniversary of the publication of the "white book"
> and do something similar with TKD and Power Klingon.
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