Re: CHAT: t-shirt

I wonder if Marc Okrand were on this list or if Mark Shoulson were still on
this list would we still feel as free to trash Klingon?  Does their absence
make them any less worthy of our respect as fellow conlangers?  I would hope
not.  Let's leave the "language x stinks" rhetoric to the auxlangers and
remember what our community is all about.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Lars Henrik Mathiesen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:55 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: T-Shirt
>
>
> > Date:         Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:03:06 +0100
> > From:         Dan Jones <yl-ruil@...>
>
> > [...]. But please, not Klingon, please! I hate it, It's nonsensical
> > and hideous. [...]
>
> > 1) the orthography. [...] Why is /K/ represented by a trigraph (tlh)
> > when there are other, easier, solutions, like L, lh or tl?
>
> > 2) OK, the phonology. It has too many holes in it. [...]
>
> > 3) the lexicon. None of the words seem to have any relationship too each
> > other, [...]
>
> > 4) urgh!
>
> YHBT. MOHW. HAND.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour
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