tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 10 00:42:23 1995
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}} General apologies
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: }} General apologies
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 23:42:23 -0500
I had some quality time with myself while I mowed my lawn today, and I
decided I needed to apologize for a bunch of things.
First, I offer a minor apology to d'Armond Speers for mis-capitalizing his
name a few days ago.
Second, I apologize to the list at large for mangling my tlhIngan Hol
response to charghwI' so badly. HIqva' veql...I mean, HIvqa' veqlargh. I
figured I really ought to write something in Klingon instead of debating
it, and I'm afraid I'm a bit rusty. I intended to be gracious and
eloquent, and instead confused the qa' out of the sincere beginners who
make it a point of translating and understanding every bit of Hol they see.
(I actually woke up in the middle of the night thinking "Oh, no, I used
the wrong prefixes on {jIH DaHIqbe'ba'} and {SoH vIHIqbe'ba'}!" I didn't
realize I misspelled {HIv}, though. I was tired when I wrote it, but I was
not drunk.)
I also apologize to you all for writing so much ABOUT the language and not
very much IN it. I expect most of you are thinking to yourselves, "So
what's the point? Whether it's really noun-noun or not, we know what it
means."
Next, a special apology to charghwI' for keeping him so occupied in debate.
Perhaps he wouldn't have posted anything in Klingon here anyway, but I
feel at least partly responsible for the dearth of tlhIngan Hol
jabbI'IDmey.
Finally, I apologize for taking the bait and letting adverbials cloud my
{-wI'} theory. There is, of course, absolutely no canon support for {QIt
Hergh QaywI'}. Proposing it made me look silly and seriously undermined my
credibility.
There, I feel much better now.
-- ghunchu'wI'