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

[Harold Schiffman]

This was my point--not that Klingon had sounds that no earthling language had,
but more "exotic" (at least to an American English speaker) ones, such as velar
fricatives, post-velar stops, and so on.  All to convey the notion, I
think, that the
Klingons were kinda dangerous.

HS

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jeremy Graves <jayrkirk42 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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...
> ________________________________
> 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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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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