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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/22/2020 11:35 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The grammar of Klingon is quite simplified compared to English
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Indeed, but isn't this the genius of klingon ?</pre>
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<p>Eh... I don't know if this was genius instead of mere simplicity.
It was a language written to be a coffee-table novelty and to
produce a few lines of verisimilitudinous language for a movie. I
don't think what you perceive of as elegance was really meant to
be. It happens to appeal to your tastes — and mine. But I don't
think Okrand actually imagined he was inventing something of
exquisite aesthetics. If anything, I think he was thought he was
doing the opposite, and the joke was that Klingons were so alien
their aesthetic sensibilities were just unfathomable.</p>
<p>I think Okrand's subsequent translations show that he DOES value
simpler sentences with fewer "glue words," but I don't think this
design feature was driven by his desire for elegance in the
language.<br>
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