Re: Klingon (was Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll))

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:43:16 -0500, deinx nxtxr wrote:
> > Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme.

Huh?  What is the one odd phoneme?   How can an isolated phoneme be odd?


It's not that Klingon has bizarre phonemes that makes the
> phonology unnatural, it is the unsystematic jumble of
> phonemes it has.

Yup.  Did my earlier message about this not make it through, or was it just
not clear?  I thought I had pointed out exactly that mismatch, with groups
like [d`][n][s`][t]...


> > The only grammatical thing that I see being "different" are the verb
> prefixes
> > that represent subject-object combinations.

The odd thing there is that it's an agglutinating language, but has
subject/object combined into unanalyzable prefixes. That kind of
one-affix-tells-you-many-things feature is usually associated with
inflecting languages.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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