tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 08 08:49:24 1995
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Re: Languages
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Languages
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:36:50 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from Adam Walker onTue, 7 Nov 1995 15:06:13 -0800)
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 15:06:13 -0800
>From: Adam Walker <[email protected]>
>> I also studied Esperanto before Klingon. And about half-a-dozen other
>> constructed languages here and there... I am not a student of obscure and
>> constructed languages. I am *the* student of obscure and constructed
>> languages. :) I suppose what counts as "obscure" is a matter of opinion,
>> of course.
>>
>> ~mark
>>
>I am also VERY interested in languages. Which "obscure" languages
>have you at least dabbled in? Which constructed ones? I wonder,
>does anyone know anything about Klingon Sign Language?
Let's see... English, Hebrew, Esperanto, Klingon, Welsh, Lojban, American
Sign Language, Sanskrit, mostly-forgotten High School French, tiny bits of
reading-up and research (to varying degrees) into Volap"uk, Quenya, Langue
Bleue, Aramaic, Basque, Cherokee, Hawai'ian, Gaelic, Japanese, Arabic, Ro,
aUI, and other weird conlangs... um, that';s all I can think of at the
oment. Some of these I barely touched on, some I'm fairly good at.
Dunno about a putative Klingon Sign Language; who knows, there may be one.
I've read what others have said on this list regarding that, and don't know
if there's anything I can add. It's kind of interesting, though, that in
that episode when Data was learning to sign for the peacemaker (Riva? and
was the episode called "Peacemaker" or something?) the sign-language used
was American Sign Language, near as I could tell. I suppose this is not to
be considered marvellous, when we consider that no matter where Star Trek's
wanderings take us, they always meet up with humanoids that speak English
with little or no accent [to an American] (and don't give me any Universal
Translator guff; Kirk has been on isolated worlds alone with no technology
at all and done just fine understanding people). ST is not what you'd call
groundbreaking in the field of recognizing the possible diversity in a
galaxy of different worlds.
~mark