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

[Harold Schiffman]

Julia:

One of the reasons this issue is being dealt with here is that the
creation of new
languages is a language policy issue PAR EXCELLENCE.  It's not just a nerdy
sci-fi kind of discussion.  At least that's what motivated me to post
the original
message--it's language policy running wild!

HS

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Julia deBres <juliadebres at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This whole thread is hilarious, I'm loving it.
>
> It seems like a Monty Python sketch that a secret group of international
> linguists are deeply engaged in analysing the distinctive features of
> languages that only exist in Outer Space.
>
> Extremely nerdy....in the best possible way.
>
> Awesome, people.
> Julia
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> From: Harold Schiffman <haroldfs at gmail.com>
> To: Language Policy List <lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu>
> Sent: Tue, 22 June, 2010 4:03:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [lg policy] Klingon and other "crazy ideas" in book about
> invented tongues
>
> 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
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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