[95984] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Apr 8 16:55:32 2013
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:55:07 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CABND55G1i0xd7HUzUn+8zwBHi+CQXWS8=W9TBy8TnyebK33y6g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/8/2013 4:28 PM, Noah Bogart wrote:
> In my heretical opinion, I feel like Klingon stagnates because we're
> stuck waiting on MO for new words and constructions. Obviously, he's
> great, but the lack of community involvement in its furtherment, as I
> see it, makes growing the speaking base hard.
I refuse to accept the word you coined for "magician's hat" and insist
you embrace the word I made up for "eating a TV dinner." See the
problem? There is no International Committee on the Klingon Language,
and I for one would not recognize any such committee's authority to tell
me what is and is not Klingon.
The only way to do what you want is to have a community that not only
uses Klingon for communication, but also that is a separate group from
"Klingons." That is, it must split off from Star Trek's Klingon language
and be its own language, governed by the rules of natural languages.
qaSbe'bej.
I do find it amusing, though, that so many people forget that Klingon is
a constructed language that does not actually evolve in the way natural
languages do. It would be interesting if there were to develop a "Living
Klingon" language alongside the "Classical Klingon" we get from Okrand.
In fact, it would be fascinating to watch the two diverge as speakers of
Living Klingon accepted new words and grammar to handle things that
Classical Klingon couldn't.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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