[Tlhingan-hol] Why Klingon is perfect

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> On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 21.01.2016 um 12:02 schrieb mayql qunenoS:
>> In this mail I will describe, why Klingon is perfect as a conlang.
> 
> Although I also agree wit most of what you said, there are some things not really correct, at least from a Mr-Spock-logical view.
> ……

> that someone who wishes to learn, has actually a shot at managing to
>> 
>> learn the entire vocabulary. If it had a vocabulary of 10.000 words,
>> who would be able to learn them all ?
> 
> Of course it's not much to learn, but most natural born languages have much more words, and we are also able to learn those.
> 
> To compare, "basic english" has only 850 words, according to wikipedia, German has about 75.000 words in stadard speech, but about. 300.000 words one can use.
> 

chorgh vatlh vaghmaH mu’? bIqID, qar’a’? ‘op mI’mey DachIl’a’? bIghItlhHa’’a’?

paq <<Doch QIjwI’>> lo’ wa’SanID mu’mo’, tlhaQ. mu’ <<SanID>> lo’laHbe’. <<wa’maH vatlh>> lo’nIS.

wa’netlh mu’ poQ “basic English” ‘e’ vIHar. wa’bIp mu’ Sov HochHom *English* jatlhwI’pu’.

If English has a problem, it’s that it has too many words, not too few. I’m 61 a native speaker and I still encounter English words I’ve never seen before fairly often.

> 
> No offense, I just wanted to comment. :-) I don't speak (because I don't like it) Esperanto, but that one certainly may have even much better reasons.
> 
> rIn.
> 
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> Lieven L. Litaer
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