Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 21:38 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Karapcik, Mike" <KarapcM@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Ugly Klingon was Re: PHONO: lateral plosive
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Peter Clark wrote:
> > Er...you _do_ realize that Marc Okrand deliberately specified capital
> > letters to deliberately make Klingon ugly? In other words, it's a
> > feature, not a bug.
>
> He *purposefully* made it ugly?
> I always thought it was an alternative to diacritics.
> Purposefully?
> Ok......
>
> On that topic, does anyone know anything about Marc Okrand? I've
heard he used to teach at USF New College (I go to school and work at the
USF Tampa (main) branch). Was he any good. Has he written anything else
interesting? Is Klingon his "claim to fame"?
> (I know he also did Atlantean from Disney's movie. Frankly, the
language aspect was the one thing about that movie that made me cringe.
Atlanteans speak PIE (ok...), so by extension they are fluent in *all*
daughter languages (not ok...). The "Teach Yourself Atlantean" on the DVD
was sooo veeery laaame.)
They really speak PIE? Somewhat cringeworthy, but it'd be interesting to
see how he rendered it...