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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] the birth of a new word: qorgh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Nov 15 04:53:04 2013
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:52:44 +0100
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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jaj 14.11.2013 16:58, ghItlh Bellerophon, modeler:
> I notice in the exchange that MO consults his list of unused
> monosyllables mainly because he has only 30 seconds.
Marc Okrand explained how he made up the words in the creation of TKD:
He had a chart of possible combinations where he could just "choose" a
random word and give it a definition. He first thought if that word
"sounds okay" for what it might mean, and sometimes he also paid
attention if the word should follow a pattern, as the words for speech
all start with ja-.
As you can read in the interview, MO likes to think about a word for a
long time if he likes to have a pun in it, but sometimes he might just
look at his list of un-used syllables and pick one from there.
For the "cork", the pun was obvious and he just had to check if that
syllable had been used before.
But theoretically spoken, if Klingon will increase its vocabulary, words
will definitely become longer, at least after all syllables have been used.
By the way, I have heard that the syllables SIt and pIS will never be
used! ;-)
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
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