[HPforGrownups] Re: A message?

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 179003

muscatel1988 wrote:
> Mus's ears perk up:
> 
> I'm a linguist (syntax is my field), and if I might make one final
> stab at the house elf thing, there's one thing that always irked me
> about it.  JRRT was scrupulous in his treatment of languages, devising
> coherent grammars for his invented languages; it's possible to write a
> grammar of  Yodish (the English-lexified language that Yoda speaks);
> Klingon has spawned a vast fandom (though this isn't really comparable
> to the other two, since they were actually devised by their authors).

Klingon wasn't? The Klingon language that got all the fan attention was 
devised by Marc Okrand, under contract from from Paramount, for Star 
Trek II. So, yeah, it's not Roddenberry, but you seem to think that it 
is a construction of the fans rather than something originating from TPTB.

I never heard of Yoda's language being anything designed by Lucas or 
anyone working for him, so that's the one that stands out, to me, as not 
fitting in with the three. (And JRRT's languages, while coherent, are 
with the exception of Quenya not particularly complete.)

--Random832