tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 30 06:57:25 1994
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Re: Origins of Klingon
- From: [email protected] (david barron)
- Subject: Re: Origins of Klingon
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 07:57:21 -0700
>I'm decloaking and emerging from Lurker status for a few words on this
>topic. A few months ago, while searching for influences on Klingon, I took
>a look at Okrand's 1977 Ph.D. dissertation in the library here at U. C.
>Berkeley (his alma mater). The dissertation is a grammar of Mutsun, an
>extinct Native American language once spoken in the vicinity of Mission San
>Juan Bautista in California. Mutsun clearly did not serve as a basis for
>Klingon; in fact, Mutsun is very much *unlike* Klingon.
>
Very interesting!
Okay I have never asked to get someone Ph.D. dissertation (or a copy thereof)
what is the best way of getting one? THis one in particular.