klingon_story1-9  Exercise 3: Language and Made Object
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In-jokes (chang'eng after the Bunker twins, tlhaq for "clock", Sa'Hut as
Yiddish tuches backwards) show a human maker with a sense of humour: Klingon
is an object someone made.

Language: the sounds, the word order (object-verb-subject), clipped speech and
the rules for building words.

Invented society: how you greet (nuqneH), how you part (Qapla'), the war
vocabulary, the curses, the sayings about dying well. These come from the
television Klingons, which existed before the language did.