<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">We don’t tend to add derivative terms that Okrand has not mentioned in canon to the various official word lists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The official vocabulary is large, and maintaining it does require judgement calls, and at various times, ones judgement can vary, but generally speaking, Okrand can give us original words and derivatives, or omit derivatives as he sees fit and we follow his lead, rather than expand the vocabulary, inventing canon-qoq.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We could have come up with {ghojmoH} without Okrand giving it to us, and we could justify using it in our speech and writing to mean “teach", but then he could have later given us a different verb for “teach” that wasn’t derived from {ghoj}. By giving us an explicit {ghojmoH} to mean “teach”, he was informing us that we could freely use {ghojmoH} without waiting for some other verb.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We could expand the vocabulary many times over by inventing derivative words, and we do invent derivative words as needed in speech and writing, but we don’t confidently present our inventions to others as official words in the vocabulary, as if we were Maltz or Okrand.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In any language, we invent neologisms as needed, hoping they are good enough that we will be understood, but it takes time before such an invention proves itself worthy of addition to the global vocabulary, or just fades away because it was insufficiently adopted.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Klingon is only different because there is one human on Earth who can announce if a word is “real”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Witness the famous story of {‘I’}.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 24, 2020, at 5:01 AM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 at 19:20, Alan Anderson <<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" class="">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sep 20, 2020, at 11:54 AM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">What other demonyms were revealed in TNK? </blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">See <a href="https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/source/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/source/</a> and scroll to the bottom for TN!LK<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I see a bunch of countries like Russia and Finland, but I don't see demonyms in the list like Russian or Finnish/Finlander. Does the word {raSya'ngan} "Russian" actually appear in the software, and isn't included in the KLI New Klingon Words list because it's considered too obviously a derivation from {raSya'} to be its own entry? Or: does it not actually appear, but is considered implicitly to be canonical by some people because it's such an obvious derivation?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do demonyms explicitly appear in TN!LK? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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