I wonder if Okrent is familiar with Malinowski's admonition that for a good ethnographer, what people *say *they do is only the beginning: It's not real ethnography until you watch & record what they *actually* do.
Anyway, that's quite a rogue's gallery she's got there. Computer programmers -- hoo boy, what nerds those guys are! Robot engineers? Get 'em a pocket protector! (Does "Trekkie" actually even have a clear meaning, anymore?) Anyway, everyone knows that OT Furry Role-Players are way below any of the groups she mentions... On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:06 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > From this month's Ansible: > > 'Klingon speakers, those who have devoted themselves to the study of a > language invented for the _Star Trek_ franchise, inhabit the lowest > possible rung of the geek ladder. Dungeons & Dragons players, ham > radio operators, robot engineers, computer programmers, comic book > collectors -- they all look down on Klingon speakers. Even the most > ardent _Star Trek_ fanatics, the Trekkies, who dress up in costume > every day, who can recite scripts of entire episodes, who collect > _Star Trek_ paraphernalia with mad devotion, consider Klingon speakers > beneath them.' (Arika Okrent, _In The Land Of Invented Languages_, > 2009) > > http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/ > > Sarah's Teonaht is listed in the book, BTW. > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
