tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 24 01:09:50 1995
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Incompatibilities (was: Re: law'/puS)
- From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Incompatibilities (was: Re: law'/puS)
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:54:24 GMT
- Priority: normal
> The point is that we can't accept everything as true, honest, grammatical
> Klingon, and Okrand can only backfit to a point, without continuously
> referring to "different Klingon dialects, slang," and so forth.
It's happened, like I thought it would: we have been forced to a decision
to pick and choose between contradictory forms, as people writing in Tolkien
Quenya have to. I suppose that the Klingon forms which are eventually rejected
could be explained as errors in transmission from the presumed Klingon
original to Okrand's knowledge of them.