tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 21 05:54:05 1998
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RE: More words
- From: "Rose, Thornton (Atlanta)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: More words
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:53:53 -0400
By "more extensive set" I mean more new words. I think more
people would take an interest in Klingon if there were more
words for the things that they would want to say, and the Star
Trek writers might just do a better job, too.
You say that there is not a "language committee", but I think
it's actually a great idea. The KLI could be the sponsor, and
Dr. Okrand could be the chair, with final say on additions and
changes to tlhIngan Hol, of course. I know tlhIngan Hol is his
intellectual property, but I would think that he would like to
see it grow (but he might not, either). Has anyone ever talked
to him about it? Has he ever said either about further
development of tlhIngan Hol?
~ Thornton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Anderson [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 11:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: More words
>
> ja' "Rose, Thornton (Atlanta)" <[email protected]>:
> >I know that this is a little off topic, and probably will rub some
> >people the wrong way (how's that for a colloquialism?), but has
> >anyone thought about or worked on creating a much more extensive
> >set of words for tlhIngan Hol?
>
> Two things come to my mind in response to this question. First, what
> do you mean by "a much more extensive set" in the first place? There
> are quite a lot of words already. In what direction are you wanting
> to extend the list? What are you having difficulty expressing within
> the existing vocabulary? Let us know what you want to say, and we can
> either help you do it with what we have or explain why what we have is
> not up to the task.
>
> Second -- we aren't creating tlhIngan Hol anyway. We're just studying
> and using it. There isn't a "language committee" set up to invent new
> vocabulary or suffixes or grammar or idioms. We take the language as
> it exists and explore its limits. On occasion we reach what look like
> definite boundaries. Sometimes we encounter gaps that seem to cry out
> to be filled, but *we* aren't the ones who can fill it. The language
> belongs to Marc Okrand, and we do not try to take it from him.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>