tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 00:11:57 1995

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Re: qeylIS betleH and stuff

In a message dated 95-11-28 09:29:19 EST, you write:

>The "official" KLI position be damned, so far as I care only Okrand can
>generate canon.  I will not contort my mental faculties to come up with
>excuses and reasons for every benighted creation of some mealy-mouthed
>Paramount writer with no concept of any language but English, an inhuman
>deadline to meet, and photocopies of the Klingon lexicon.  Something
>claiming to be Klingon shows up on Star Trek, but is obviously wrong and
>made up by some dork who had to put some words in there?  Fine.  That
>doesn't make it any sort of canon to *me*.  If a James Bond film had
>Russians speaking incorrect Russian, that wouldn't mean that they had
>discovered a new dialect or anything.  It would mean that the scriptwriters
>had simply not done a sterling job of research.  (I've heard that the
>Cyrillic writing at the beginning of the movie _The Hunt for Red October_
>[not a Bond film] misspelled the words.  I don't think anyone believes that
>we've discovered something new and unsuspected about the Russian
>language).
>
>~mark
>
>

I have to throw in my voice here.  I am sticking with MO and KLI.  I am more
of a linguist than a Trekkie anyway.  I may just stop watching butchery.  Let
Paramount receive our {naDHa'ghach}.

peHruS

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