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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] KLI CanonHom (was: Facebook Translation Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Mar 2 15:17:19 2012
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:17:07 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C1AD19@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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On 3/2/2012 3:11 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
>>> The question here is not strictly about "the language", but about
>>> how to render specific names that don't have established Klingon
>>> language equivalents.
>> Either way, it still comes out to "When you're speaking Klingon,
>> you say 'basketball' this way..."
>
> I'd argue it's more like "There's no canonical word for 'baskeball',
> but a commonly used term is..."
It's not a "commonly used term"; it's "a term a group of people who have
more say in the language than you do have decided for you."
>> list members here. A cabal of people who happen to be active on a
>> given list at a given time smacks of elitism and exclusion. ("Where
>> were you when the committee chose that word?")
>
> While I can see where you're coming from, I think you're exaggerating
> the issue quite a lot. There's already a mountain of "mandatory
> reading";
All written by Okrand. KLI publications are not mandatory reading; in
fact the understanding of grammar in most of them is rather outdated.
--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/
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