tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 25 16:30:34 2002
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Re: Klingonase vs. tlhIngan Hol
You are correct in assuming, I had missed your point.
Thank you for clarifing what you stated. I now better
understand what you were saying. So Ford doesn't want
to continue his work, well then I think there should
be no argument on which language is correct. Oops, I
might of just stuck my foot in it. Oh, well. Look
I'm glad someone at least came up with something we
are able to use.
--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> charghwI':
> : You missed my point. Nobody has ever used "Ford's
> Language". Not even
> : Ford has ever used Ford's language because Ford
> never had a language.
> : He is a fiction writer, not a linguist. He made up
> words and defined them.
> : Mostly, he made up nouns. He sprinkled them in
> with his English text, but
> : he never developed a language. He doesn't know how
> and he's not
> : particularly interested in learning how.
>
> See the interview "John Ford on Klingonaase" in
> HolQeD 4.2 (June 1995).
>
> : By contrast, Okrand is a linguist, excellently
> qualified to develop his own
> : language and he has done just that. tlhIngan Hol
> is a language.
> : Klinganaase is a myth; a minor tool for fiction
> writers. It is not a language
>
> : and never has been, and likely never will be. If
> it ever DOES become a
> : language, someone other than Ford is going to have
> to do it, since Ford
> : has no reason to do it and no inclination to do
> it. He never intended to
> : make up a language. He was just trying to add a
> little depth to his fictional
>
> : characters.
>
> Some pro and fan authors writing in Ford's TFR
> "universe" have expanded the
> vocabulary somewhat, most notably Ann K. Schwader's
> series of Neysa and Karan
> novels. Also, Lynda Carraher put out a "Writers'
> Guide To Klingonaase" which
> adds some vocabulary as well as her attempt to
> create a minimal grammar based
> on Ford's work (although she revised his spelling to
> add some "guttural"
> phonemes she must have felt were lacking). If
> interested, I can provide some
> examples.
>
> However, even with these fannish additions and
> modifications, klingonaase is
> still only a mere sketch of a language -- much like
> Diane Duane's version of
> Rihanssu (Romulan) in her four pro-novels.
>
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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