Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 13:41:12 -0500 (EST) From: Timothy Miller X-Sender: millert@grad To: conlang Subject: CONLANG: Borrowing from Klingon Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Timothy Miller Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sun Dec 24 14:08:35 1995 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@diku.dk Would it be bad to borrow vocabulary from Klingon into a language I'm developing? My language isn't designed for hostility, so many such words won't be borrowed, but most of the vocabulary could be very useful to me, and Klingon's morpheme structure is the same as mine (CVC, usually), so it makes it easy to borrow. What do you think? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Miller, millert@grad.csee.usf.edu Theoretical Linguistics http://www.csee.usf.edu/~millert Music Theory, Computer Engineering --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linguists are very skilled with their tongues.