tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 10 13:57:54 1995
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Re: tlhIngan Hol versus klingonaase
Although I might not make it to the next qep'a', the first compilation of
the Extended Corpus Project (ECP) *will* be there....
>From what we've gleaned out of the novels, it is *very* clear, that
Klingonaase is best looked at as being a "pidgin" tlhIngan Hol... As
noticed, indeed it is very noun heavy....
And I've yet to find a tlhIngan'a'Se' (Klingonaase) word that can't be
easily turned into a proper Hol form. As a matter of fact, I'd hope that
Okrand could see the ECP soon after it's submitted for review at the qep'a'.
Possibly, he could sanction "Okrandic" transcriptions of these
Klingonaase words and phrases, and put to rest *forever* the "debate".
BTW, I wouldn't hasten to state that Klingonaase is the work of fiction
writers with no linguistic information. Most all of it is the work of
John Ford, author of _Final Reflection_, _How Much for Just..._ and
*most* importantly all the FASA Star Trek RPG Klingon stuff.... There is
a consistency to what he shares in those. I suspect Ford may have
created a fuller grammar and vocabulary, but not knowing how one is to
reach him, combined with the fact that Okrand's work a few years later
supplanted Ford's work's primacy.... it seems a fairly blind end. Hol is
of course a much Higher Order Language (pun intended :-)
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