[Tlhingan-hol] 19 new words to create

mayql qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 09:08:38 PST 2016


> I have a few conlangs I would like to learn several years down the road

loD, wa' Hol neH wIghojmeH, Sa'HutDu'maj DighortaH 'ej Holmey puS Daghoj'a' ?
man, we are busting our asses to learn just one language, and you will
learn several ?

tera'Daq bIchegh'eghnIS loD..
come down to earth man..

cpt qunnoQ





On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:11 PM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh
<lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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