tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 13 10:27:15 1996
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Re[3]: To greet or not to greet? The canonical que
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- Subject: Re[3]: To greet or not to greet? The canonical que
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 12:48:42 -0500
TL>Seems Lt. jaj, my friend, has stirred up quite a nest of hornets here.
TL>Whether nuqheH is valid or not is a debate that will rage for quite some tim
TL>I'm sure.
TL>Whether newbies should be treated well cannot be debated. Or, let me try
TL>that in tlhIngan Hol:
TL>qun nI' wItIvtaHmeH jatlhwI'pu' chu' DItungHa'nIStaHqu'
TL>[I'm not entirely certain I said that right, but I think it makes at least
TL>some sense.]
TL>--bangte
I can say this, on the Mush some try very hard to greet mebbies and be
nice to them, others do not. Some simply continue their character, and
expect the mebbie to realize:
1) This is a MUSH site
2) The characters on the site are supposed to be Klingons
3) That one is to interact with others as if they are Klingons
Anyone who 'runs' from the site because of being confronted by a pile of
others all talking in tlhIngan would also run from a site by people all
talking in French/Chinese, etc.
One would also run from a site where everyone is carrying on with
unusual sexual practices if one was not into it.
If I started a web site called Shower Posse, one could expect that:
1) the users would all speak Jamaican patois
2) they would all act like Jamaican bad men
3) that anyone who was not interested in this would log off.
So do not condemn yourself or the mebbies for this is what it is.