tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 26 11:59:39 2010
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Re: A thought ...
- From: Christopher Kidder <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: A thought ...
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:58:15 -0500
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I would suggest, humbly, that we expose about 3,000 - 5,000 people to
the *tlhIngan
Hol* each year, many of whom have never heard it before and want to know
more. Not to mention, I require about 10 - 20 people to purchase used
copies of TKD, KGT, and TKW each year. Why not make the book available in a
way that royalties are collected? Granted, some of my cast members will
insist on purchasing a $2 used copy, but some will want the new version.
Especially if it corrects the words that appear going only one direction and
includes words that have been adopted into usage but are only located on the
KLI site or in other places other than the three major published Okrand
books.
Granted, not tens of thousands of people demanding the book at the moment.
However, having just auditioned about 100 people who only know Star Trek
from J.J. Abrams's rendition, you may garner a huge number of newbies when
the next movie comes out.
Qapla' batlh je,
Chris
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:08 PM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Pocket Books took a big risk when they did each of the Klingon books. I
> doubt that the demand from the larger population would warrant another
> edition of TKD, but the few who would want it would want it A LOT, myself,
> included.
>
> It would be very nice to have TKD just as it is with the two halves folded
> together in the appropriate sequence, with a current, complete word list
> with the few corrections it needs. Like, maybe read it on my iPad? Very
> nice.
>
> As an aside, my wife and I are reading a book on brain plasticity. All on
> her own, she showed interest in learning Klingon, because it might exercise
> her mind. Without any pressure from me, she got TKD off the shelf and went
> through the introduction. I started teaching her basic pronunciation and a
> sketch of the most basic grammar features, including verb prefixes.
>
> If this keeps up, we might make it to next year's qep'a'. No promises. I
> won't do it solo, but if she were actually interested...
>
> pItlh.
> lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
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> On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:48 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Fiat Knox <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> ...We still have time to petition Pocket Books to reissue TKD.
> >
> > I did not think to query about the status of the new Klingon
> > Dictionary during qep'a' last week. It was substantially complete
> > several years ago. I do not know what work remains before layout can
> > be done. I will ask Lawrence for an update.
> >
> > As for small demographics, the maturity of Print On Demand technology
> > basically makes it a non-problem.
> >
> > -- ghunchu'wI'
> >
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Christopher O. Kidder
Artistic Director, Commedia Beauregard
www.cbtheatre.org
www.christopherokidder.com