tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 04 10:42:55 2002
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Re: maDISnIS'a'?
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maDISnIS'a'?
- Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 15:43:02 +0000
>qon Sangqar:
> >I'm not sure what you mean here. Since there are no native speakers,
> >Okrandian canon stands in the same relation to the language as native
>speech
> >would to a natural language.
>
>That is true in an external sense. But there is another side to the coin.
>It
>is also possible to consider Klingon to be a fully-developed language,
>which
>Okrand is the field linguist studying and reporting his successive
>discoveries. That is the role-playing side of it. That is the capacity in
>which the language is viewed when something is officially published about
>it,
>whether by Okrand or the KLI, e.g. HolQeDs, Hamlet, Gilgamesh, etc? From
>that
>point of view, don't you think the language is treated differently?
maj. DaH qayaj.
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