[96003] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Apr 9 16:39:01 2013
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:38:44 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <51647861.9030501@gmx.de>
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On 4/9/2013 4:21 PM, Lieven wrote:
>
> Am 08.04.2013 22:55, schrieb David Trimboli:
>> There is no International Committee on the Klingon Language,
>
> Ehm... What about the Klingon Language Institute?
Nope. Not a body intended or authorized to govern Klingon. Its purpose =
is to *study* Klingon.
>> and I for one would not recognize any such committee's authority to tell
>> me what is and is not Klingon.
>
> That's a different point.
>
> The goal of the KLI is to promote the language, but not to create new
> words. But I'm sure, if there were some kind of committee, it would be
> inside the core of the KLI and in cooperation with Okrand, we could find
> a way to officially set up some kind of new source for Klingon words.
No, it's the same point. The KLI is just an organization that some guy =
started as a fan response to The Klingon Dictionary. Sure, I sell it =
short that way=97it has always been more scholarly than just a bunch of =
Trekkies getting together=97and it's been very successful, but the word =
"official" doesn't apply. It's not an official anything with regard to =
Klingon.
> Another reason for the language being "stuck" as someone mentioned is
> the reason of the licensing. Nobody is allowed to publish anything about
> klingon without a licence. That's why there is so few about it.
To create an "unstuck" Klingon, what I called a "Living Klingon," you =
need a language-using community, not talk *about* the language.
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