Re: COMLANG?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 26, 2008, 18:58 |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:18 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Stevo wrote:
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> > There are many homophones in Klingon. I consider that one of its
> > disadvantages.
One reason is that some scenes with Klingon dialogue later received
different subtitles, so the same sequence of sounds had to mean both
the original text and the "revised" one.
(For example, "jonta' neH" for "engines only" / "want prisoners!" -
from which comes the animate plural -ta', the concept of "Clipped
Klingon", and the lack of 'e' in {neH} constructions.)
> I think Mr. Okrand was not without a sense of humor:
Oh indeed - there are numerous puns in the language.
> QeD science
I don't think I ever noticed this one before, though!
> are a few that struck my funny-bone.
DaS boot :)
Also, the names of the fingers come from the names of the Finger Lakes
in New York State, which I thought was pretty interesting. While the
names of the toes come from "This Little Piggy"...
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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