tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 07 05:27:15 1994
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> Lawrencevo':
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> > > I would buy into this more, if Klingon was Worf's first language. It is
> > > not. REmember; he was raised by *humans*. Terran Standard is is first
> > > language... or by this point in his life, it is.
> > >
> > > Show me a Klingon whose antive tongue is Hol'e', and I will agree you
> > > have a valid arguement here.
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> > Without legitimizing the first posting above, let me respond to the
> > second. Although his use of tlhIngan Hol seems pitiful, it IS indeed
> > Worf's first language. Remember, he was raised by humans, but only after
> > a bit of childhood with his true parents. We know they died shortly
> > before his "Age of Inclusion" but we also know Worf has memories of going
> > on a hunt with his father and a party of warriors, and that his father
> > talked to him about the hunt. We know he is the elder of two brothers
> > (which assures at least a little time between them) and that he had a
> > "nanny" who took care of him as a child. From these tidbits it seems
> > reasonable to think Worf possessed at least a young child's command of
> > this, his native language (this entire argument of course presumes
> > something like human timing and progression through stages of initial
> > language acquisition). Why he doesn't speak it better is anyone's guess.
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> Also assuming that Klingons are simialr to humans in how they
> learn/retain languages, he may very well have lost it due to disuse.
> Isn't there evidence that if a human is raised on one language, then
> switches to another with no more exposure to the first that they forget
> much of the previous language? Or learn to pronounce it with a foreign
> accent? Worf couldn't have had much exposure to people speaking tlhIngan
> after he was abandoned... it could explain why he can't speak the
> language very well anymore. {{:)
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> And by this logic, hisuse of the lnguage is still suspect, qar'a'?
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> --tQ
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