The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

[Michael Everson]

On 16 Nov 2016, at 01:47, Mark E. Shoulson <mark at kli.org> wrote:
> 
> The defensiveness was not that Tolkienian scholarship was deemed "worthy", but more that Klingon's apparently was not.

Back in the day? No. It wasn’t. 

> There was a Roadmap with pIqaD on it, and indeed you were the one who put it there.  Nick Nicholas, in https://web.archive.org/web/20120307231609fw_/http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Klingon/piqad.html credits you with a "delightful move of defiance" for replacing pIqaD with Sarati when it was removed.

That would be me. 

>> The Roadmaps are really of no consequence. They’re useful, but they have no status and are subject to any kind of change before ballotting ends.
> 
> Getting pIqaD off the "not-roadmapped" list is more important, both symbolically and, as Ken Whistler says, practically.

Ha’ ruch.

Michael