tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 24 17:33:19 1993
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Re: What *did* we ask Okrand?
- From: Peter Garza <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: What *did* we ask Okrand?
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 19:32:27 -0600 (CST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Ken Beesley" at Nov 24, 93 03:36:04 pm
> Indo-European languages tend to have well-developed tense-marking
> mechanisms, and we often come to think that tense is a normal and
> indispensible distinction in human languages. However, Okrand is a
> good linguist (Ph.D. from Berkeley) and knows that many languages
> even here on earth have aspects, and no tenses, just like Klingon.
> These include Arabic and at least some Polynesian languages.
>
Just out of curiosity, why did Okrand get the job of making Klingon?
Is he a big Trekkie who wanted to do it, or has he done some work on
aritficial languages, or did the makers of ST 3 just pick a good
linguist at random? I was wondering about this just the other day.
> Ken Beesley
>
>
Peter Garza
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