[Tlhingan-hol] 19 new words to create

[Jesse Manoogian]

>De'vID:
>>> tlhIngan Hol Dalo'be'chugh, qatlh ghurbogh mu'tay' DaSaH?
>
>Andrew:
>> I think I understand this . . . "If you are not using the Klingon language,
>> why are you increasing the vocabulary?"
>
>"If you don't use the Klingon language, why do you care about a
>vocabulary which increases?"

Oh, well, I almost got it right.
>Andrew:
>> 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 was already usable in daily conversation before then. I met
>D'Armond many years ago (this was before his son was born, I believe)
>and we were at a shopping mall together, during part of which time we
>conversed entirely in Klingon. Yes, we did have to use circumlocutions
>and spent a lot of time pointing to things and explaining ad hoc
>vocabulary to each other at first, but once we got going we could
>converse fairly well.

Wow, David, I am impressed!
I read a lot of articles about Klingon stating that D'Armond's son rejected Klingon because it not only lacked words for things like "diaper", it even lacked things for "table". Was this criticism misplaced?
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