tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 16 13:01:14 2008
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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:42:55 -0400
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Well, the term "constructed language", or "conlang" for short, is in
wide currency outside of the Klingon community; I see no reason not to
use it. It conveys the idea: someone sat down and constructed the
thing. It didn't just evolve naturally. You could also call it a
"planned language".
On the other hand, "planned language" could also refer to a language
that someone had planned to complete but never got around to.
Sindarin, anyone? :)
All languages may be artificial, but there's a difference between a
language that grows within a culture over time (centuries, millennia)
and one that a person or even a committee sits down to put together as
a conscious effort.
I don't like "imaginary language". tlhInan Hol may have been
"imagined" as the native language of an "imaginary" race, but that's
different from the language itself being imaginary...
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Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>
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