> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Philip Newton
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:01, deinx nxtxr
> <deinx.nxtxr@...> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> >> Even Sindarin or Quenya could be
> >> >> expanded to serve as an auxlang if UN so wished it (now
there's
> > an
> >> >> interesting alternative history ;)
> >> >
> >> > I have seen such proposals at least for Quenya.
> >>
> >> That doesn't surprise me one bit.
> >
> > Me neither given that Klingon has been brought up too. The only
> > problem with these are they are artistic creations so not really
> > designed to be easy to learn and use.
>
> Heh. Wasn't Klingon even specifically designed to be "unnatural"
from
> the point of view of "common" Earth languages? (For example, in
having
> odd gaps in its phoneme grid, and an unusual word order; possibly
> other things, too.)
Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme. The only
grammatical thing that I see being "different" are the verb prefixes
that represent subject-object combinations. Beyond that I'd say the
lexicon would be the worst part to learn because it's rooted in the
fictional Klingon culture.