tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 30 17:10:29 1997
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RE: Rules for LaserQuest
At 04:13 PM 3/30/97 -0800, you wrote:
>{-Qo'} is not used only for commands. If there is a command, {-Qo'} is
>required and {-be'} is not allowed. But if there is a statement, {-be'}
>merely negates while {-Qo'} indicates that you refuse to do something. This
>refusal does not have to be violent in nature. It could be angry refusal to
>comply, or a polite refusal.
I would argue that Klinons can be a lot of things, but polite would not be
one of them. :)
>I think the controversy here is that we're not quite sure exactly how you
are
>using this sentence.
Sorry I didn't make it clear. At the beginning of each LaserQuest
"mission", they make the participants recite the previously mentioned rules
of the game. It's a way of the management of covering their behinds if
someone gets hurt or damages one of the (very expensive) lasers. The
player can not say that he was unaware of any of the rules because he
actually recited them back to the game's marshall before competition
started. (For example, if "Stan" gets a little to rambunctious and runs
smack dab into a wall breaking his arm, his laser, and his chances of ever
playing again, he can't say that he was unaware that he could not run, and
therefore (theoretically) cannot sue LaserQuest.) Therefore, "I will not
run" is a simple statement (or a promise if you will) that we will not run
during the game. The same goes for the other rules. They are not
refusals, because we have not been instructed to run. I still believe that
"-be'" best suits the situation.
Banzai
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