tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 01 10:45:31 2002
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Re: invention and innovation
>Stephan wrote:
>>also esperanto speakers often refer to the canons of the inventor.
>>seemingly no one wants to criticize him, but he himself said that
>>esperanto is the language of the esperanto speakers (as far as i
>>know). did MO say something similar to this? or is it solely you
>>decision to follow MO's canons? but what if he's wrong?
>
>Whereas Esperanto is an attempt at a kind of linguistic perfection, Klingon
>is mainly an emulation of culture. As such, it can be just as "wrong" as
>Okrand wants it to be, as any natural language is. It is completely
>fabricated. I think we do criticize Okrand freely in our own ways. For
>instance, I think he has been "wrong" about the label of -'e'. I personally
>think he just didn't know the difference between topic and focus.
>Nonetheless, it is a real suffix demonstrated with particular usages, so the
>best we can hope for is an eventual deduction of its "true" function. Okrand
>has said something to the effect that he likes that people are thinking up
>their own ideas on the language. It's in one of his HolQeD interviews, I
>forget which one. This is encouraging to hear from him, because a few people
>around here develop an unhealthy Okrandian fundamentalism, which ultimately
>makes things unfathomably dull for the majority of us.
jes, that's encouraging. :)
Do'Ha' pupbe' tulwI' Hol, 'ach majQa' 'oH.
(unfortunately esperanto is not perfect, but it's well done.)
stephan,
sts.