Am 22.04.2019 um 15:40 schrieb SuStel:
I don't think it's silly at all. Their interest is in Star Trek canon, and rightly so. Fans interested in Star Trek canon have no more reason to accept something Okrand says in a Facebook message to me as Star Trek canon than I do in accepting a line some writer has put in the mouth of a Klingon as Okrandian canon.
I'm not talking about some pesonal facebook message, I'm talking about The Klingon Dictionary, which is Okrand's work that he used to create Klingon in the movies. The following example is not an actual situation, but people on MA would accept "Kappla" if it were written as such in the closed captions, and if I tell them that it's spelled {Qapla'} in TKD, they would say it's not canon, because that's not how it appeared on screen. That's what I see as silly or maybe even quite stubborn to refuse that, although they know that Okrand has written the Klingon words for the movies. I mean, it's the official Klingon dictionary, and not something that some random guy has written. Nevertheless, although I don't agree with them, I accept that it's their policy and let them do it their way - including naming the language "Klingonese". ;-) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/KlingonLanguage