Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: Shqip

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:54:02 +0300

Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
> At 04:54 AM 05/18/2000 -0400, [email-masked] wrote:
> >Lojban is not suitable for representing Vulcan because
> >1. it is too obviously terrestrial (evolved in the wrong ocean)
> 
> So is Klingon.

But not in the same way, nor to the same extent. The words
of Lojban (all of the gismu and some of the cmavo) have been
generated with the express purpose of resembling words with
appropriate meanings of the six largest Terran languages.
In the design of Klingon such similarity has been avoided
just as purposefully. There are Okrand's little jokes, and
a good many malglico in the canon, so if one wants to expose
Klingon as a humbug, one can; but it is not such an obvious
Terran conlang as Lojban is.

--Ivan