[tlhIngan Hol] Carl Buck's alphasyllabary

[Will Martin]

Experience suggests that it’s a very good idea to include sources for each word. There’s the legendary {‘I’} = “armpit”. I’ll spare you the story.

In early days, I made a paper dictionary that listed sources, using actual dictionaries as inspiration. I called it the AKD (Annotated Klingon Dictionary). When I gave a copy of it to Okrand at the next qep’a', in his typically generous fashion, he was delighted, because he had not, as yet, made his own complete dictionary, instead having, according to him, not very well organized scraps of paper “scattered all around” (like poetic nostrils) with words on them.

My dictionary was flawed, but more complete than most, and citing the sources for each word made it more maintainable, since errors could be tracked down and caught when necessary, unlike word lists like yours, which, since humans maintain it and it has thousands of entries, odds are, contain errors that cannot be traced back to the source.

At the request of others, I started the New Words List on KLI’s Web site and maintained it for years, though my dedication to the task was flawed and I handed it over to others who have done admirable work… Though I see that it now claims that it was last updated in the middle of 2020, with a promise that it WILL be updated by July 2024… which seems to have been a statement of honest intent, but not fulfilled.

I cannot fault anyone for a failure sufficiently identical to my own. I know exactly how much persistent work this requires.

The boQwI’ app, available on both the Apple App Store and on the Android’s equivalent, is the most updated and annotated Klingon dictionary that I’m aware of. Once again, kudos for a job well done, and for dedication to a task so many benefit from. You can consult the credits on the app for the list of the many contributors.

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Jan 26, 2025, at 12:19 AM, James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
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> Almost forgot to mention that Carl Buck/Masako was the one who started the Klingon-English dictionary up at https://www.frathwiki.com/Klingon/lexicon, a document I now maintain!
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> On Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 06:11:38 PM PST, janSIy . <kenjutsuka at live.com> wrote:
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> He showed up on the KLI Discord server and received some compliments and some criticisms.  He didn't like the criticisms and left very quickly.
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> From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org> on behalf of James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 3:57 PM
> To: tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org>
> Cc: James Landau <savegraduation at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] Carl Buck's alphasyllabary
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> I was just browsing Fiat Lingua, the online conlanging academic journal, when I discovered the December 2024 article: a piece by Klingonist Carl Buck (a.k.a. Masako) that develops a rather-alien alphasyllabary for Klingon:
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> https://fiatlingua.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/fl-00009F-00.pdf
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> Check it out!
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