<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>As I understand it, the author of the original article seems to have misspoken (or is it miswritten?). Klingon doesn't necessarily have features that Earth languages don't, but it combines features from a variety of languages in ways that earth languages don't, and it exhibits the most uncommon (on Earth) syntactic pattern: OSV, all in an effort to appear more alien. I would be more specific, but I'm afraid my Klingon dictionary is in a box 7000 miles away from me right now...</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Kephart, Ronald" <rkephart@unf.edu><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Language Policy List <lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, June 21, 2010 5:32:39 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [lg policy] Klingon and other "crazy ideas" in book about invented tongues<br></font><br>
On 6/21/10 3:30 AM, "Jeremy Graves" <<a ymailto="mailto:jayrkirk42@yahoo.com" href="mailto:jayrkirk42@yahoo.com">jayrkirk42@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Klingon was invented by linguist Marc Okrand for the Star Trek films.<br>He created, on purpose, a harsh, guttural, alien language that does<br>things in ways earthling languages don't. Out of this world.<br><br>Does anyone exactly what feature(s) Klingon has that no Earth language has?<br><br>Ron<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>This message came to you by way of the lgpolicy-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu" href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a><br>To manage your subscription unsubscribe, or arrange digest format: <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/lgpolicy-list"
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