tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 23 06:38:44 1997
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Re: KLBC: new words, once and for all
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: new words, once and for all
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:50:22 -0400
- Organization: http://www.kli.org
> But KLI is not a sect, nor is Marc Okrand a guru.
Let me just respond to this one portion of a recent post.
The better metaphor is the one that Marc started with. There's a
linguist in the future who is interviewing a Klingon prisoner. The
linguist builds up a working grammar and glossary which becomes TKD (for
our purposes).
Marc is obviously the linguist, and unless you know someone else with a
plausible cover story for interacting with native Klingon speakers, then
I won't buy any neologisms that get generated by anyone else. The
reason is simple, they didn't come from a Klingon.
Are there other ways to speak Klingon? Probably. Marc has hinted that
some of the new book will reflect some of these dialects and other
levels of speaking. But what we're talking about on this list, what we
primarily work with in the KLI is the tlhIngan Hol created by Okrand.
Neologisms reasonably derived from the rules for making new words
described in TKD are fine. Coming up with something because of some
need (real or imagined) that does not comply with these guidelines is
not tlhIngan Hol; that is, it is not going to be recognized by other
users of Okrand's language, and will not be acknowledged by the KLI.
Harsh, but fair,
Lawrence
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