tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 05 11:36:41 1996
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Re: Is it out there?
- From: Susan Farmer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Is it out there?
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:35:56 -0500
>
>Ford Prefect writes:
>>Is it possible to obtain a complete listing of all {tlhIngan-Hol} words to
>>date, say in database or text format?
>
>I think most of us agree that it's inappropriate to distribute a complete
>word list. There's a real benefit to going through the dictionary page by
>page and copying the vocabulary by hand. This also applies to some extent
>to the words revealed in the audiotapes.
>
>But there is an increasing collection of words whose definitions appear in
>the pages of HolQeD only. {qa'vIn}, {yejHaD}, and {'uD'a'} come to mind.
>Many people on this list and elsewhere don't have the financial priorities
>on learning Klingon to permit them to purchase the appropriate back issues
>of HolQeD. I wonder if it might not be a bad idea to collect all of the
>post-TKD vocabulary in a single "officially maintained" list.
>
>Such a list wouldn't have to be made freely available. Perhaps something
>like an "annual supplement" to TKD could be offered in return for a few
>dollars' donation to the KLI. What do you all think?
>
I for one would be thrilled to death to get something like this.
tevram