[Tlhingan-hol] How would you feel about new Klingon morphemes? [was: New expression: Klingon for "dim sum" revealed‏]

[Christa Hansberry]

Accidentally hit "reply" instead of "reply all"; pardon me.

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From: "Christa Hansberry" <chransberry at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2016 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] How would you feel about new Klingon morphemes?
[was: New expression: Klingon for "dim sum" revealed‏]
To: "Rhona Fenwick" <qeslagh at hotmail.com>

And I still haven't watched any Star Trek! :-D

I started learning Klingon because of positive experience with other
constructed languages (Esperanto, toki pona, lojban), and because I kept
hearing about it from other people who think all invented languages are
"like Klingon", and I was curious to try a more naturalistic conlang.

And of course qunnoq's right about people who join but don't actually
learn; I have an account on a site for learning Arabic. Do I speak Arabic?
No. Am I actively learning it? Still no. I also do Esperanto tutoring on
lernu.net , and I see it all the time; people do the first lesson, and
never come back; even to read the response (my responses are marked
read/unread on my end). So obviously as qunnoq points out, joining a group
or a website only indicates some initial curiosity, not that someone is
actually learning. Actual participation, especially in the target language,
is what demonstrates that.

Although qurgh is correct also in his observation that young people prefer
the hip, modern Facebook to the old-fashioned mailing list, although now
that I've joined the mailing list, I like the format so much that I just
joined another one (about conlangs generally).

-QISta'

On Apr 29, 2016 7:50 AM, "Rhona Fenwick" <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ghItlhpu' mayqel qunenoS, jatlh:
> > People are interested in klingon because of star trek, and the way
> > that klingons are depicted there.
>
> I don't want to wade into the clash here, but I do just want to correct
you on this one point. Not everyone who comes to Klingon does so as a Star
Trek fan. For my part, I learned Klingon not because of Star Trek, but
because I was fascinated by the idea that someone could build a whole
language from scratch (this was when I was much younger - I was 17 when I
started learning). Not like Esperanto - I tried it first, and found it too
pedestrianly European without the benefits of learning a natural European
language like Spanish or Danish or Greek - but as soon as I started
learning how unique and different Klingon is as a language, I was hooked. I
actually became a Star Trek fan because of Klingon, not the other way
around. I think there may be a few others with similar experiences even
among the po'wI'pu'.
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
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