tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 14 07:28:09 1998
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RE: KIDC on KLI
ja' Qov:
> --Qor'etlh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > FYI:
> > The subject is: Klingon Language Institute.
> > To read that message and others in the same conversation thread, go
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> vIlaD. jIjang. wa' bepwI' vIqaw. latlh vIghovbe'.
> vIt chaH. po'chugh vay' qoj nom ghojlaHchugh, wIlaj. reHchugh neH
> qoj Hol qech yajbe'law' wIboQ, 'ach loQ wIbuSHa'.
> I joined the KLI with an interest in speaking pure, conservative
> Okrandian Klingon -- in fact I *ignored* the KLI for years because I
> assumed that in order to translate the Bible they had to be making up
> their own rules. How's *that* for elitist? Standards so exclusive I
> wasn't going to play with anyone but me! I had independently arrived
> at an appreciation for the rigid constraints we put on "correct"
> Klingon. Therefore I don't think that there is a KLI elite that
> railroads everyone into a self-created concept of what is correct.
> But it is true that we have an elite with an agenda. The agenda is
> adherence to strict Klingon grammar, and the methods of eliciting this
> behaviour include praise and good treatment for those who comply, and
> ridicule, ad hominum attacks, arguing our superiority over and/or
> ignoring those who do not. From my experience these are the usual
'Iv wIbuSHa'? tlhIngan Hol HaDmeH latlh 'obe' tu'be'lu'!
> techniques used in male-dominated academic institutions, and I have
> learned them well.
> nuvpu' puS boweghqangchugh, chaq mIw bochoHlaH, 'ach ghaytan
> chetammoHta'DI' nargh chu'wI'pu'.
> ==
> Qov - pab 'utlh
- tuv'el