tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 13 20:37:11 1998
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chay' jIghojmoH?
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- Subject: chay' jIghojmoH?
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 23:36:54 EST
I'm considering organizing a qepHom in my area. The people I'm going to be
asking to participate at first are people I know have little or no knowledge
of Klingon. Therefore I'll need to introduce them to the language. I've been
collecting bits of things I've seen on the list which I thought might help me
with this task, including Qov's qep'a' wordlist which we went over at the
Philadelphia qepHom and peHruS's <yargh lut>. I figure the first thing I'll
need to show them is how to produce Klingon's non-English sounds, like <tlh>,
<D>, etc. I thought I would teach the sounds and then have a little
review/brush-up session briefly at the start of each meeting. I don't want to
bug folks about pronunciation all the time, but neither do I want to have them
learn something wrong. I know from experience that learning something wrong
and then having to "unlearn" it and learn it properly is both difficult and a
pain in the butt. (Especially guitar techinique. Oy.)
This is something which may not take place for a while .. I'm hoping to have
something to report by the time of the qep'a' this year, though. If I'm going
to do this, though, I figured I'd better get my rear in gear and start asking
about it. (lumbe' tlhInganpu', 'ach Do'Ha', tera'ngan lumwI' je jIH.) I know
David Barron did a thinger about teaching Klingon at qep'a' wejDIch, but I
unfortunately didn't get to see his presentation.
Thanks much in advance for comments and advice or what-have-you!
Sydney!
a.k.a. Lt. Cdr. Sarah Barrows, Starfleet
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