tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 26 17:11:40 1996
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Re: Thesis
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Thesis
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 96 19:11:39 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:45:23 -0700
>Steven Boozer writes:
>> I currently have a PostScript article by another linguist, who finally got
>> hold of Okrand's dissertation, comparing Klingon with Mutsun--which I
>> cannot read until I learn how to reformat it. (Any ideas?)
>
>I suspect many of us could print it out (though I for one don't know how to
>convert it back into a useful document format). Perhaps you could upload it to
>the FTP site. This article sounds like great fun. Who is the author? Could be
>another potential KLI member out there waiting to be found.
>
>Lawrence
Actually, I don't know him personally. He posted the following
announcement on one of the alt.startrek newsgroups. I don't think he'll
mind me re-posting it here, to an appreciative audience. <g> If he isn't
already a member, you should drop him a line.
You can go to his WWW site and get the article for yourself.
(It is compressed, so you will have to uncompress it with "gunzip".)
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Marc Okrand, the author of the language of the Klingons in Startrek, has a PhD
in linguistics, on a thesis on Mutsun, one of the Ohlonean (= Costanoan)
languages.
This raises the obvious question whether Klingon is a kind of Mutsun, or,
as somebody once put it: "..., or is it a sort of generalized Athabascan with
the serial number filed off?". (Btw, Mutsun is not Athabascan, it's Penutian,
just like Mayan.)
Thanks to the new WWW catalog of all Dutch university libraries I have finally
been able to put my hands on Okrand's thesis, to answer this question.
The answer is a definite No, and I've made a four-page write-up with a
comparison of both languages:
ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/publications/MutsunKlingonComparison.ps.gz
Sorry it isn't in HTML, but I haven't found out yet how to make overprinted
characters in HTML (if at all possible).
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Vrije Universiteit | ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick
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1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands | tel: +31 20 444 7744
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