[Tlhingan-hol] How many grammarians ?

[qunnoQ HoD]

interesting thoughts indeed..

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:09 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.)
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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