tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 26 18:12:28 1997
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Re: Virtual Postal Course
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Virtual Postal Course
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:12:17 -0700
At 17:14 97-09-26 -0700, qabatlh wrote:
}This is a great idea. I`ve just completed the first lesson of the
}Postal Course and I do not like the method of delivery. I live in
}Canada and I can`t get US stamps easily fore the S.A.S.E..
}
}Maybe we can get a skilled tlhIngan Hol speaker to send lessons via
}email to all those interested.
Here's why the course is not offered by e-mail:
It is much easier to send e-mail than it is to send a paper letter. In
fact, e-mail can be sent virtually without thinking. In order to learn
Klingon you must think. Anyone who believes s/he can learn Klingon without
thinking is seriously misguided. Anyone who is not willing to go to the
minor trouble to put a lesson in an envelope with an SASE is unlikely to
actually work on a lesson with much thought. And so who ever ran the course
would be spammed with thoughtless Klingon.
For those people who have a legistimate unability to use the postal system
(live somewhere where mail service is unreliable, cannot get American
stamps, physical disability that prevents manipulating pen and paper ...) I
know that David Barron is *very* accommodating. If your problem is just
that it's too much bother, I don't have much sympathy. It's a fair amount
of bother for David to mark them, so it makes sense for him to confine his
efforts to those serious enough to master the technology of envelope-licking.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian