tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 19 20:04:39 2002
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Re: QeD De'wI' ngermey
ja' ...Paul:
>What I'm hearing is that Klingon doesn't need to be expanded, because its
>purpose is limited to fiction.
vaj bIQoychu'be'. yI'Ij: tlhIngan Hol wISachnISmoHbe' maH'e'. SachlaHbej
tlhIngan Hol. pIj tlhach mu'mey DIHutlhmo' rut Sach mu'tay wIneH. 'ach
woQ wIghajbe'. Hol 'oghwI' wIvuvmo' woQDaj wInIH wIneHbe'taH.
>Ultimately, Klingon serves no purpose,
>therefore it needs no expansion.
ram tlhIngan Hol ngoQ. ngoQwIj'e' yIbuS: tlhIngan Hol tu'lu'bogh vIjatlh.
tlhIngan Hol wIqalmoHpu'bogh vIneHbe'.
>Now, Klingon was developed to make up some good consistent technobabble in
>a science fiction series. It has achieved that goal remarkably well, so
>you can argue that it needs no expansion because it's already achieved its
>goal.
Hol ngoQqoq vISaHbe'. Hol 'oH. vIHaD. vIghoj. vIjatlh. jatlh latlh.
maja'chuq. maQum. yap.
>But then you have ask, "where do we go from here?" Unless we're
>all planning on becoming writers for the next 47 Star Trek television
>shows, the language has no purpose but to be a toy for entertainment.
'ej? matIvmeH Hol wIlo'chugh, qay''a'?
>And ultimately, most of us outgrow our toys after a while (or we replace
>them with new toys. ;)
Or, if we really like the toys, we turn what was "just" play into a hobby,
and use what were "just" toys into tools for creative expression and
interaction. Especially if we also enjoy sharing the toys with some of the
other people on the playground.
-- ghunchu'wI'