Yann Forget <
yann@...> wrote:
> Dmcdevit wrote:
> (...)
>> Your notion that Klingon, the language of a fictional alien race on a
>> popular American television show, has some kind of existence separate
>> from its origins is absurd. It only needs to be rejected for its
>> present: which is as a linguistically unimportant, functionally
>> nonexistent, and educationally useless language to write a dictionary in.
>
> I agree with the closing of this Wiktionary, and this argument says it all.
It is not an argument, it is rhetoric. And very weak, at that. It can be used
with equal force by the other side, e.g.
>> Our language is considered linguistically unimportant, functionally
>> nonexistent, and educationally useless. It is thus all the more imperative
>> that we produce a dictionary in it.
Prejudice like that against a natural language (which is very often expressed in
the world) would, I hope, never stand here against the opening of a wiki. The only
remaining part of the agreed-with argument is that it is a constructed language, and
we have not been deleting wikis merely because they belong to constructed languages.
*Muke!
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