[lojban] Re: longest works in conlangs

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:27:46AM -0400,
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/4/2005 5:22:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Robin via ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
> 
> 
> > Anyone know what the longest work in Klingon is?  Or Esperanto?  
> 
> Esperanto has translations (and originals) of thousands of works,
> as long as any natural language work.

"as long as any natural language work" makes a pretty poor goal.
Perry Rhodan is the longest natural language work I'm aware of, and
I'm not likely to get anywhere near that, no matter what I do.

> Klingon has no long native works, although translations exist of
> the Gilgamesh epic and two works by Shakespeare:  Hamlet and Much
> ado about nothing.
> 
> It's interesting that Lojban beats Klingon by a mile in this
> regard, as I believe that Klingon has many more fluent speakers
> than Lojban.

Dosen't surprise me in the slightest.  The problem is people's loose
usage of the word "fluent".  Klingon's vocabulary is *incredibly*
poor.  Much worse than Lojban's.  I've heard of at least one
parent(s) who tried to raise their kids speaking Kling but
failed/gave up because there were just too many things they couldn't
talk about.

-Robin

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