tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 01 12:33:13 1996
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Re: qep'a' highlights (Hey let us in on it, guys)
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: qep'a' highlights (Hey let us in on it, guys)
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:33:03 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from AlanAnderson on Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:16:53 -0700)
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>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:16:53 -0700
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>***
>I will now remove my Beginners' Grammarian hat and speak
>perhaps a bit more severely than is "proper".
>***
>I don't mean to sound elitist, but I still think that a person who is
>not willing to expend the effort to try to translate a message doesn't
>quite deserve the privilege of knowing what it says.
This may be true, in some cases... But I think this discussion/argument is
taking on more heat than it should. Even if it's a worthy goal to "force"
people to exercise their Klingon to understand messages, I'm not sure that
finding out what happened at the qep'a' should be a state secret to be told
only to those willing to put in the effort. Maybe SOME thing could be done
that way, but for heaven's sake, it's only finding out what happened at the
KLI's one and only annual meeting. That said, you also can't *force*
someone to post in English just because you can't read the Klingon. This
list's charter explicitly welcomes postings in English (about Klingon) and
in Klingon. So yes, I encourage people to post about the happenings at the
qep'a' in English. Maybe I will myself soon.
~mark
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