[Tlhingan-hol] 19 new words to create

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh]

Imagine the construction of a skyscraper. The architect works with engineers and contractors, but he’s away on another project just now, and the builders and contractors and engineers are gathering in the morning before a long day’s work, and some random passerby stops, looks up, and then walks over to join the meeting and tells them that they really should make the top of the building look like a huge letter “O”. He asks them to make sure and tell that to the architect, then he walks on, happy to have made this important contribution to the skyline of his metropolis.

lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
Door Repair Guy, Retired Honorably



> On Jan 1, 2016, at 2:03 AM, Jesse Manoogian <boyfromtheabyss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >tlhIngan Hol Dalo'be'chugh, qatlh ghurbogh mu'tay' DaSaH?
> 
> I think I understand this . . . "If you are not using the Klingon language, why are you increasing the vocabulary?"
> 
> I have a few conlangs I would like to learn several years down the road when I have the time to study them and their vocabularies have grown to a size that makes them usable in daily life (Klingon has gotten much better in this regard . . . when D'Armond Speers tried to teach his son the language, much was made out of the fact that Klingon lacked a word for "table"). Klingon, Na'vi, Dothraki, Sally Caves' Teonaht, Brithenig, Kankonian (a language spoken by extraterrestrial humans that already has 50,000 words), and the famous Ithkuil. I'm not too interested in the IAL's/auxlangs nor in Lojban. Lojban is too nerdy for me; Klingon, Na'vi, and Dothraki are more geeky than nerdy. And the IAL's usually don't have interesting quirks like Klingon's OVS and polysynthesis, or Teonaht's law of detachment. (FWIW, I could also mention that Tolkien said Esperanto was dead because it didn't have a mythology.) To help Klingon grow in vocabulary, I'd like to stir the pot, so to speak, for the time being.
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