[Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal

[David Trimboli]

On 4/8/2013 4:28 PM, Noah Bogart wrote:
> In my heretical opinion, I feel like Klingon stagnates because we're
> stuck waiting on MO for new words and constructions. Obviously, he's
> great, but the lack of community involvement in its furtherment, as I
> see it, makes growing the speaking base hard.

I refuse to accept the word you coined for "magician's hat" and insist 
you embrace the word I made up for "eating a TV dinner." See the 
problem? There is no International Committee on the Klingon Language, 
and I for one would not recognize any such committee's authority to tell 
me what is and is not Klingon.

The only way to do what you want is to have a community that not only 
uses Klingon for communication, but also that is a separate group from 
"Klingons." That is, it must split off from Star Trek's Klingon language 
and be its own language, governed by the rules of natural languages.

qaSbe'bej.

I do find it amusing, though, that so many people forget that Klingon is 
a constructed language that does not actually evolve in the way natural 
languages do. It would be interesting if there were to develop a "Living 
Klingon" language alongside the "Classical Klingon" we get from Okrand. 
In fact, it would be fascinating to watch the two diverge as speakers of 
Living Klingon accepted new words and grammar to handle things that 
Classical Klingon couldn't.

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