[Tlhingan-hol] Hellraiser Bloodline

[Steven Boozer]

Lieven :
> Okrand also likes to repeat his introduction from TKD, where he explains
> that whatever he wrote in TKD is not complete and one should not see any
> rule as being an ALWAYS or a NEVER rule. Rules can be bent sometimes.


It should be remembered that even though the rules say "always" and "never," when Klingon is actually spoken these rules are sometimes broken. What the rules represent, in other words, is what Klingon grammarians agree on as the "best" Klingon." 
 	- Marc Okrand, The Klingon Dictionary (introduction)


MORE USEFUL QUOTATIONS:

The grammatical sketch is intended to be an outline of Klingon grammar, not a complete description. Nevertheless, it should allow the reader to put Klingon words together in an acceptable manner... It is not possible, in a brief guide such as this, to describe the grammar of Klingon completely. What follows is only a sketch or outline of Klingon grammar. Although a good many of the fine points are not covered, the sketch will allow the student of Klingon to figure out what a Klingon is saying and to respond in an intelligible, though somewhat brutish, manner. Most Klingons will never know the difference.
	- Marc Okrand, The Klingon Dictionary (introduction)


...the course to follow for a student probably falls somewhere between. You don't want to go too fast and loose or too far afield because then nobody will understand what you are doing. You won't have any rules at all. You don't want to be too rigorous, either. It's not math. One of the things that I think about when I read what people have to say about Klingon sometimes is when someone argues that things have to be one way, I think, "No, it shouldn't always be like that." It should be like that in maybe 75% or 80% of the cases, but not 100%. Languages don't work that way.
	- Interview with Marc Okrand (HolQeD 7.4)


Any fool can make a rule. And every fool will mind it.
	- Henry David Thoreau


Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon -- that's hard!
	- Montgomery Scott to Kirk (STIV: The Voyage Home)