<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">e<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When that time comes, some will say: "We need to take over; the language must not remain stagnant. It needs to grow."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I ask: What will be that which you will contribute?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Vocabulary? But already any intermediate level speaker can say anything he wants.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Grammar? Do you think you are capable to expand known grammar, or answer questions which even okrand himself chose never to clarify?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No. Your goals will be different:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. You will want your names to remain in the history of the language as the people who took over.</div><div dir="auto">2. You will want to have the satisfaction of people asking you to grant them new vocabulary.</div><div dir="auto">3. You will want to have even more opportunities to be employed as "experts", thus gaining an advantage over anyone else who wants the job, but isn't on the "committee".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">.. Because why would a company hire anyone else, when it could hire those who create canon?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>And because someone may wonder.. I've never used klingon financially, and I never will. To me klingon was never a means to earn money, and it never will be.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Now to avoid misunderstandings.. 1,2 and 3 aren't something bad. There's nothing wrong with someone wanting his name to be remembered, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be the leader in a group/community. And there certainly isn't something wrong in trying to increase your business opportunities. There's nothing wrong in capitalizing on something, and by saying "capitalize on" I mean "using something in order to help your carrier".</div><div><br></div><div>But I don't see why I should be someone accepting the authority of such a "committee". Am I obligated to act in order that some of the people on that committee achieve these goals? Because how would they achieve these goals if they never found anyone to accept their authority?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And there's another matter here which needs to be discussed: the very participation in such a "committee" of people using klingon professionaly, raises the question of objectivity in their choices.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But that will be explained in the next post.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">t</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">< raptaH Hol 'e' wIchaw'be'nIS; latlh pab latlh mu'tay' je tu'nISlu'. vaj 'oqranD wIgheSnIS > jajvetlh jatlh 'op.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">'a DaH jIghel: < chay' Sughaq? ></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">mu'tay' chu' bochenmoH'a'? wejHa' Hoch neHbogh jatlhlaH Hoch laH ghIl Hol lo'wI'.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">pab chu' bochenmoH'a'? wejHa' pab tu'lu'bogh boQIjchu''a'? not vay' QIjchu'pu'bogh 'oqranD boQIjqangchu''a'? laHvam boghaj 'e' boHar'a'?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">pImchu' ngoQraj:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. 'oqranD lugheSpu'bogh nuv tlhIH net qaw boneH.</div><div dir="auto">2. latlh mu'tay' luHevmeH 'op, tlhIH wuv 'opvam boneH.</div><div dir="auto">3. tlhIHvaD nargh latlh malja' 'ebmey boneH. 'a yejvamDaq jeSbe'bogh nuvpu'vaD maybe' ghu'vam.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">yejvam nuv wIvlaHchugh wa' malja', qatlh yejvam jeSbe'wI' qelnIS?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>'ej chaq SIvchoHmo' vay'.. not jIHvaD malja' 'oHpu' tlhIngan Hol'e', 'ej not malja' moj.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>DaH vIyajHa'be'lu'meH, vay' vIQIjnIS: qabbe'bej 1,2,3 je. Daqawlu' DaneHchugh, ghomDaq DevwI' Damoj DaneHchugh, qabbe'. 'ej SoHvaD latlh malja' 'ebmey DanarghmoH DaneHchugh, qabbe'bej. <br></div><div><br></div><div>'a qatlh Sarvam yej woQ vIlajnIS? ngoQmeyvam chavmeH 'op, jIvangnIS'a'? 'ej chaq DaH yajbe'mo' vay', jIghel: < woQchaj lajqangbogh pagh'e' tu'lu'chugh, chay' ngoQmeychaj chav Sarvam yej nuvpu'? ><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">'ej latlh qelnISlu'bogh tu'lu' je. Sarvam yejDaq jeSchugh vay', 'a ghaHvaD malja' 'oH je tlhIngan Hol'e', chay' wIvmeyDaj voqlaH latlhpu'? wuqtaHvIS Sarvam nuv/nuvpu', nuv/nuvpu'vam (lu)SIghbe'lu''a'?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">'a QIn veb Sojvam vIDIgh.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Dana'an <br><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br>Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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