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Re: NPR interview

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 7, 2001, 5:26
J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> And Rosta wrote: > > > > Oops. I just rechecked the "New Times" site (it *is* > > > http://www.newtimesla.com, by the way) and discovered that, weeks after the > > > original article, they finally printed the correction about my > > > name--along with some other letters which you might find interesting.
It's this one, right? <http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-04-19/sidecar.html>
> > including this piece of ignorant baloney; > > > > #Dr. Marc Okrand's creation of the Klingon language is just as impressive as > > #what Tolkien accomplished, and I think it's wrong to suggest otherwise. > > How is that ignorant baloney, as opposed to one person's subjective opinion? > Different people judge the impressiveness of conlangs by different standards.
There is much that is wrong with the impression that that article gives, but I became interested by one of its implications: what would Tolkien think about Quenya being used on tens of thousands of items of merchandise used to market the movie? I suspect he'd be terrified... BTW, that picture in the article one of Marcus, right, and not 'Wild Don Lewis'? (Just checking) =================================== Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

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