tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 28 21:26:30 1994
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Re: A thesis on tlhIngan!?
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: A thesis on tlhIngan!?
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:26:15 +1000 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Vaillancourt Alain" at Sep 28, 94 11:45:18 pm
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Vaillancourt Alain jay'?
=Instead of comparing Klingon to Esperanto, an artificial language which
=has evolved and has survived to the point where it has even found its way in
=_Red_Dwarf_, why not compare it to artificial languages with a rather
=limited number of speakers/readers like Volapuk?
In fact, there are few artificial languages Klingon *can* be compared to,
because of it's highly deviant sociolinguistics, and because of the galvanising
force of computer networks. The language sociolinguistically closest to it
is Lojban (with which it shares a couple of leading lights :) ), but even
there the languages themselves, and their weltanschauungen (ok, ok, world
views) seem to different to allow comparison.
Klingon is Klingon, Esperanto is Esperanto, Lojban is Lojban, and Volapuk
is like nothing on Earth :-) . An article trying to pinpoint *how* exactly
the sociolinguistics of these languages differs would be a worthy undertaking.
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