[Wikipedia-l] Re: Klingon resurrected

Tue Jun 8 21:55:49 UTC 2004

Brion Vibber wrote:

> Timwi wrote:
>
>> I just can't describe how angry I was and still am about the 
>> favouritism Toki Pona is receiving. It is totally infuriating, 
>> seriously.
>
>
> It's not receiving any favoritism, it's just being utterly ignored. If 
> I hadn't mentioned it was a conlang, nobody'd have noticed. Klingon is 
> famous, and that makes people spend a lot of time and hot air talking 
> about it when we've all got better things to do.

Of course!  Without actually calling the klingophiles trolls, the 
"Ignore the trolls" principle still applies.  The Klingon language would 
be less successful if it were given full privileges so the everyone 
could then actively ignore it. :-)

Ec