Part 1 Re: Whatever happened to vulcan-linguistics + question
Saul Epstein 
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:53:41 -0600

(Quotes Rob Zook: Monday, January 25, 1999 7:13 PM)

>Martina Luise Pachali wrote:
>
>> My idea was that there would be a simple verb, analogous to
>> "hear", "see", "taste", "smell" or "feel", which would denote a
>> such a perception. In a way, Vulcans do have one more sense than
>> humans do, and as there are verbs for all the other senses, there
>> would also be one to denote sensory input from the world outside
>> through that particular gate of perception. Is there, and if so,
>> what is it?
>
>Currently no such word exists in the Modern Vulcan Lexicon. Of
>course, right now we only have a "virtual" Lexicon, part of which
>exists as Marketa's Vulcan Dictionary on her web page, and the rest
>of which exists as potential words which haven't had their
>eigenstates collapsed yet :)

This is a fairly serious impediment to the development of the
language. I realize that work can be and has been done on elaboration
of the grammar without any more extensive a lexicon than we have, but
when it comes time to _use_ that grammar, we'll need words to plug in
to the structures.

I'd like to propose the following, just for consideration. Let's
combine all the piecemeal additions that have been put forward with a
re-transcribed and clarified version of our source lexicon. (Just the
more "word-like" additions by the way. All our various affix particles
probably belong in any finished lexicon, but they're so dependent on
the way the grammar turns out that I'd like to wait.)

We can label this a draft of a second edition of the lexicon, and work
on adding words generated by Rob's program, and borrowings from OHV.
It would remain a draft until such time as Marketa has a chance to
review and approve some version as the definitive second edition.

What do others think?

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