tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 10 05:43:58 1995
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Re: tlhIngan Hol versus klingonaase
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan Hol versus klingonaase
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 8:43:56 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "A.Appleyard" at Apr 10, 95 5:11 am
According to A.Appleyard:
>
> Some time the place of the Klingonaase language in the Star Trek scenario
> must be settled. Info about tlhIngan Hol says that tlhIngan Hol is the only or
> main language of the Klingons. Info about Klingonaase seems to say that
> Klingonaase is the main language of the Klingons. These two statements clash.
It is very simple:
tlhIngan Hol is a language with a grammar and a vocabulary
developped by a linguist and developed here on this list among
people who use it to translate existing literature, express a
wide range of thoughts and feelings and to argue through
grammatical confusions.
Klingonaase is a small collection of words and phrases made up
by fiction authors with no linguistic background. It is usually
presented as phrases in the middle of English sentences in
books. Period. Most of the words are nouns. It is not nearly a
language. Period.
Some question whether tlhIngan Hol is a complete language, but
the simple truth is that any argument in that direction can be
applied much more irrefutably toward Klinganaase, which is not
a language at all, but just a mystical collection of words and
phrases with no grammar and not so much as a single complete
sentence.
charghwI'
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