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["Steve Burnett" <burnett AT pobox.com>]

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, David R.Matusiak wrote:
>> And besides the Klingon tangent maybe we will all be luck enough to
have this thread fade into the abyss.  I think there has been enough  foul
language for one month.
>
> I learn something new everyday. And now I'm thinking Klingon is a foul
language. Hmmmm..

I wouldn't say foul. Although with the E-Prime like lack of "to be" [1]
lending a general tendency towards action in sentence construction, and
the heavy use of plosives, fricatives and gutterals in the speech,
Klingon's a great language for expressing strong emotion in in terms of
the physical action of speaking, so it is good for cursing.

[1] not a complete absence. Hamlet's line "to be or not to be" is
difficult and unwieldy to say in Klingon, but not impossible.

best,
Steve B
Wake Technical Community College: Instructor: 1994
Continuing Education: Foreign Languages: Klingon