tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 20 05:16:17 2006
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Re: Cute/Adorable KLBC (again)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Cute/Adorable KLBC (again)
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:15:58 EST
In a message dated 3/20/2006 2:46:47 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> Much of
> being able to speak good Klingon (or other similar languages, for that
> matter) has to do with being able to decompose complex ideas like this into
> simpler concepts that the Klingon lexicon can handle, and this will come
> with practice.
The difference, of course, is that native speakers of those other similar
languages grow up with the complex concepts already thought out by generations
upon generations of thousands upon thousands of people who often (usually?)
could not speak any other language. Klingon speakers are bootstrappers by
necessity.
lay'tel SIvten
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