tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 21 10:46:03 1994
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Re: Complete Klingon
- From: KLI Round Table Acct <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Complete Klingon
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 13:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Thornton Rose" at Oct 21, 94 09:09:09 am
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> Even though tlhIngan Hol is a very interesting language, I sometimes get very
> frustrated with it. Is Dr. Okrand or anyone else working toward completing it,
> or will it just get periodic adjustments as they are needed by Paramount? Also,
> why is the vocabulary so small? Since tlhIngan Hol is somewhat regular, a
> rule-base program to generate a large vocabulary (20,000+ words) would not have
> been hard to build.
>
> Thornton
I think the point to remember is that TKD is not supposed to contain the
complete language (and a good thing too). TKD is a linguist's work book,
detailing the grammar and vocabulary as they are pieced together with the
help of a linguistic informant (i.e., Maltz).
Will we see another 18,000 words? I rather doubt it, and certainly not
anytime soon. On the other hand, if you'd asked me if the KLI would have
grown to the size it has in such a short time, I'd have said "no" to that
too. It *could* happen. Let's see what effect a Klingon Hamlet has on
the world, that should be quite instructive.
Lawrence
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