[Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal

[PICHLMANN Christoph]

>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.

While I would appreciate more words, I think more easy-access uses of the language would be more valuable.
I think we need more widely known "non-canon but correct" uses of the language - like the videos Teresh created, or perhaps the story in the old pojwI' program.

Maybe my view is merely ignorant, but I would have a hard time to list a worthwile number of klingon fiction that is accessible to beginners who may not know more than a few basic words.

Translating Hamlet is cool and all, but it's rather useless for beginners (like me) - if I have to look up every second word in a sentence, I'm not going to enjoy reading the text. Or continue doing so, for that matter.

If klingon looks as if it stagnates, it's because there too few items using it. There are some monumental beacons, like the Shakespeare translations, or the EuroTalk program.
But even so, how accessible are they? Few would read Hamlet in english - fewer still would read it in klingon, or be able to.
The EuroTalk program might be more accessible on principle - but who will actually pay money for it, unless they're already into klingon?

The occassional fun product, like klingon monopoly, comes up as well - but I doubt there are many outside of this list who even know about it - it's too specialized (board game, klingon, Star Trek, etc...) to be of much interest to anyone else.

So, while I don't think klingon needs a TV show, I do think it needs some sort of regular fiction that is accessible for both beginners and non-klingonists.
IMO, something like the above mentioned videos from Teresh should be created by the KLI, on a regular basis.
I'm certain the resources and especially the knowledge on this list alone would be more than enough to achieve this.

Christoph

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>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:28:08 -0400
>From: Noah Bogart <nbtheduke at gmail.com>
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>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.
>
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>On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Fiat Knox <fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I think what we really need is a current TV show on air where 
> > Klingon is spoken and is an important part of the plot.
>
> Or a major motion picture or two. And an opera.
>
>
> *From:* De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>
> *To:* tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, 8 April 2013, 11:14
> *Subject:* [Tlhingan-hol] Dothraki nugh vIghal
>
>
> They have such a pretty web site at:
> http://dothraki.org
>
> The nice PDF of "The Unofficial Dothraki Dictionary" is "updated 
> frequently" (and the word list looks like a real dictionary with nice 
> formatting).
>
> They have a working wiki.
>
> The side bar has links to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter with a live 
> stream (I think) of tweets from the @learndothraki account.
>
> There's a news tab with actual news, and a media tab with videos and 
> sound. There's also a very active forum.
>
> qatlh Dochmeyvetlh DIghajbe' jay'?!
>
> I think what we really need is a current TV show on air where Klingon 
> is spoken and is an important part of the plot.
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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