tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 19 03:12:38 1996

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RE: thursday:today

>'I would like to see you again'--translated directly into tlhIngan
>requires the next step--that is--how would this concept be said by a
>tlhIngan.
>Which is, of course why i don't try to post in tlhIngan--yet.

By profession I am a technical type of person, but as part of my job I am an 
instructor for my company in Job Control Language, SAS programming language, 
Mainframe TSO, and occasionally Microsoft WORD.  The first thing I tell my 
class is that they should try to answer the questions -- take a risk -- and 
more often than not they are surprised that they know the answer.  My opinion 
has always been that the only way to really learn is to learn from your 
mistakes -- take a chance -- try it and if it goes wrong learn from it and 
then try again.  I have learned more from making mistakes and being corrected, 
because it opens more input to the process than would have occurred if I 
hadn't made the mistake.  (You miss a lot of fun stuff on the Klingon CD ROM 
game by not making the mistakes!!!)

I will throw Klingon sentences out to you all, but I will no doubt use more 
English to ask for clarification and explicate my points.  I have only 
recently started on the list, but it seems to me that the focus of criticism 
is to help learning and I need and want that very much.

I've been working in a vacuum for far too long and it only leads me to form 
ideas and build on them that are just plain wrong.  There is a lot of things 
flying around and I would encourage everyone to try!  Failure is inevitable if 
you don't try.

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