Am 22.02.2019 um 15:09 schrieb Daniel Dadap:

What Okrand says about pIqaD is that little is known about it, except that it’s not an alphabet. Yet KLI pIqaD is precisely that, so it’s clearly not what Okrand had in mind. We still use and enjoy it, though.

Okrand wrote that before the existence of the KLI. He certainly just wanted to avoid saying anything wrong so he wrote that nothing is known. His job was to describe the language, not the letters.

He knew perfectly well that written Klingon on the shows and movies was nonsense made to look good. It's not that he didn't want to be wrong; there is simply no right answer. He could not explain the pIqaD shown up to that point, because it was meaningless decoration. Saying "not yet fully understood" was just a tongue-in-cheek way of avoiding the problem in this novelty book he was writing that surely no one would remember in a couple of years.

It's exactly analogous to the explanation Worf gives in "Trials and Tribble-ations" as to why the Klingons of a century ago look so different. "We do not discuss it with outsiders." It's a funny way of spotlighting the problem just long enough to ignore it.

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