[lg policy] Klingon and other "crazy ideas" in book about invented tongues

[Jeremy Graves]

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...



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From: "Kephart, Ronald" <rkephart at unf.edu>
To: Language Policy List <lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu>
Sent: Mon, June 21, 2010 5:32:39 PM
Subject: Re: [lg policy] Klingon and other "crazy ideas" in book about invented tongues

On 6/21/10 3:30 AM, "Jeremy Graves" <jayrkirk42 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Klingon was invented by linguist Marc Okrand for the Star Trek films.
He created, on purpose, a harsh, guttural, alien language that does
things in ways earthling languages don't. Out of this world.

Does anyone exactly what feature(s) Klingon has that no Earth language has?

Ron


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