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I don't care if you're a linguist, if you're speaking Klingon, you're a nerd. (nm)

Posted by musubi Nov 19 '09, 10:38

even a cunning linguist.

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exactly. there's no reason you couldn't do the same experiment with a real language. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:42 27
- klingon is a real language. just like esperanto. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 10:43 25
  - bzzzt! they're both fake. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:44 24
    - they're invented languages, but can be used for communication. that makes them real, in my mind, if not particularly useful. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:47 23
      - (Every language was fake at some point) -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:47 22
        
        I wonder if Klingon is devoted more to abstract concepts than real objects, which might make it harder to pick up. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:48 2
        
        Because the Klingon race are such philosophers? -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 10:53 1
        
        it's all honor, aggression, and big weiner talk. -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:54
        
        totally disagree about this. and I consider those languages "not real" because they're imposed.. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:48 17
        
        Tell that to computers. -- nm - Spawn Nov 19, 10:54
        
        just because it's artificial doesn't mean it's not real. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 10:53 3
        
        for me, it is not about whether it was invented, but more about how it is used. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:54 2
        
        I have no problem with categorizing languages that way, I just think calling it "fake" is semantically imprecise is all - znufrii Nov 19, 10:57 1
        
        I am not a linguist, just trying to figure it out for myself. :) -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:59
        
        would you rephrase that in english? -- nm - Max Nov 19, 10:52
        
        I kind of look at it like - is a chair still a chair is no one's sitting in it? In the same way, Klingon is a language even if it's no one's mother - Reagen Nov 19, 10:51 10
        
        hmmmm, I dunno. True someone invented ASL but it certainly has turned into a mother tongue for many. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:53 9
        
        (There are a handful of native Esperanto speakers, BTW) -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:55 4
        
        really? I didn't know that. -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:56 3
        
        there are esperanto conferences. I imagine occasionally people meet/get married/have kids from them, and might only have esperanto in common. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 11:00
        
        It's George Soros's, of all people, mother tongue. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 11:00
        
        there are esperanto conferences. I imagine occasionally people meet/get married/have kids from them, and might only have esperanto in common. -- nm - mafic Nov 19, 11:00
        
        by this definition, Latin isn't a language anymore. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 10:54 3
        
        isn't it called a "dead" language? -- nm - loosilu Nov 19, 10:55
        
        well, it evolved into a handful of other languages ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 10:55 1
        
        Well someone at some time had to invent the words for Latin. It didn't just magically appear one day. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:56
        
        For sure. Someone had to make up the words at some point. -- nm - Shaun Nov 19, 10:48
- Esperanto! -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 10:43
I'd like to do the same experiment but in Nadsat. -- nm - Hotkiss Nov 19, 10:40
it's such a toolbag thing. It's dorkus mcmuchus run amok -- nm - CQ Nov 19, 10:39
and what if you're a Klingon Lingust that speaks earth? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 19, 10:39
There's also a pretty good chance that if you're a linguist, you're a nerd -- nm - Roger More Nov 19, 10:39 2
- Even if you're a cunning one? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Nov 19, 10:42
- or a collector of old Canadian stamps -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 19, 10:40

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