tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 21 19:05:05 1998
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Fw: More words
- From: "Dan and Pat Crawford" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Fw: More words
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:54:58 -0700
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From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Date: martes 20 de octubre de 1998 20:15
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'
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