Re: NPR interview
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 7, 2001, 5:26 |
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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.
> > 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)
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