[Tlhingan-hol] How many grammarians ?

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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh:
>> He was the first human to speak Klingon. He did so before Okrand could
>> speak it.

qunnoQ HoD:
> how is this possible ? I always thought Okrand has/had the maximum skill in
> klingon (written and conversational) anyone could ever achieve.. After all
> -by definition- every klingonist out there, from beginner to grammarian, is
> Okrand's student.

Actually, Okrand isn't all that familiar with his own invention. He
has to sit down with a dictionary to compose a complex sentence, and
he can't hold a live conversation.

The inventor of something isn't necessarily its most skilled user.

(This has been generally true throughout history: imagine the inventor
of the yo-yo, the automobile, the bow-and-arrow, and so forth; now
imagine the world champion yo-yoist, the best stunt car driver, the
best archer, etc. With almost anything you can think of, the inventor
isn't the most skilled user. The one thing that Okrand does have over
everyone else is that he can declare something to be right/wrong at
any time.)

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