On 6/22/2020 11:35 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
SuStel:
The grammar of Klingon is quite simplified compared to English Indeed, but isn't this the genius of klingon ?
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. 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. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name