tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 22:26:54 2003
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Re: In Conclusion: "Is the language too bound...?"
- From: qaS ngal-qaS <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: In Conclusion: "Is the language too bound...?"
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:08:37 -0500
*claps enthusiastically...well, semi-enthusiastically...okay, so it's the
klingon form of a golf clap, but you get the idea* lol
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Klingon Warrior
<[email protected]> writes:
> My, my, my, my, my :) I am impressed! The amount of posts with
> regard to this bit of discussion really proved worth wild! And I am
> a lot more confident in the Warrior's Tongue's ability to survive on
> its own than I was when I first put up the original post...
> :) (<= See! I'm smiling!) But I do want to respond and sort of
> conclude this discussion about expanding tlhIngan Hol, etc. But I
> feel that I'm also on the defensive when trying to write this
> response. Why is that? Could it be that those "Language Nazis"
> referred to by an earlier post are taking the original discussion a
> bit too seriously as to offend and destroy the opinions of others.
> I understand that what some say are not in the common belief
> patterns of this list, but I do think we have to calm ourselves down
> lol
> This list is to promote, train, encourage, and enhance the Honorable
> Language...not to put-down the opinions of others or even argue in
> such a nasty manner that one feels...well, defensive. So, allow me
> to sum up and respond:
> This discussion was nothing more than an attempt to see what exactly
> the speakers of Klingon felt about the problems that realistically
> face our beautiful language...us not being taken seriously and the
> language's possible death. The discussion was focused more on the
> individual doing more for this language...rather than sit around
> letting it die out. Stuff like MORE at the qep'a', etc. I even
> feel depressed when I mention such a thing...death? This language?
> Well, one thing's for sure, I've never known a Klingon who didn't
> die fighting...and I know this language will a give this world hell
> before ever laying down to die }} ;-)
> I believe in this language more than most. And I would even go so
> far as to say that I believe in it more than a lot of you combined.
> For the past three years (heh, I'm a looser :) I have spent every
> waking extra time I had to the study of Klingon. And I am damn good
> at it...believe it or not! Though I have some kinks and screws to
> fix here and there...I am proud of what I have accomplished. And
> yet, I find myself being lectured about my participation with the
> language! Those who know me can attest to the fact that my life is
> the Klingon Language. Lawrence - you are my hero. And believe me
> when I say it, if you or someone else did not start the KLI, I
> eventually would have. I look up to you and admire your work for
> what I think of as the greatest gift to Earth. And yet you, as did
> others, tell me and the few who agreed with some of my ideas that we
> needed to stop wining, "bIvIng 'e' yImev?" and actually do
> something!?! Do you know anything about what I have done for
> Klingon? I am 18; I do not have recourses that even a poor adult
> would have...but I have taken Colorado by storm with the Klingon
> language. I have written entire articles in Klingon and placed it
> in the add section of the Denver Post...payed them so they'd put it
> in. At local conventions, I use to teach a stupid Klingon Language
> Course until I was taken over by a rival Klingon House (they called
> their language course "Klingon 101") For KAG (Klingon Assault
> Group), an international Klingon organization, I use to be there
> official Klingon linguist up until the moment I left. I have been
> talking to d'Armond, who also lives in Colorado, about starting a
> new qepHom. And presently, I have been getting a poem edited to
> send into for the next issue of jatmey. A poem that took me six
> months to do because of my sheer passion into what I was saying. I
> am Klingon! I, like many of us, am the future for this language. I
> have said time and time again that I want more than anything to
> join my Brethren at the qep'a', but I am 18...and not much I can
> do...Stop whining? How's this: most of you completely mistook what
> it was that some of us were trying to say. No, we're not talking
> about some Joe-Shmoe making up new words as he damn well pleases.
> No, we're not saying remove Okrand from head of the language...AT
> ALL...but instead, we were trying to entice the Warrior's cry in the
> heart's of those who would listen. This language has a good chance
> at dying if we all-of-a-sudden stop being so dedicated. What we
> were saying was not to the language as a whole, but to the
> individual. Get up! Help us out! Don't just speak! Write
> something and have it published! One post told me to join in some
> of the projects...oh, if you only knew...We, - I - , were saying
> that no longer can this language be spoken when one of us geeks are
> watching TV, but instead, we ALL must attribute and make a
> difference for this language. You know the "Brief Editorial"
> section of the last
> HolQeD? Read it back over...That's what we were saying...not to
> the KLI or Okrand...but to you (the Individual). So, in fact, we
> were trying to encourage more people to do more for the language to
> keep it alive. But I was pleased to see that so many had felt so
> strongly about a possible change in the language's system. That
> tells me we still have a future left...I'm just trying to make sure
> that the Klingon Language's future is never in question again... :)
>
> 'ej vaj jIghItlhqa': jach SuvwI' 'e' yIQoy' 'ej narghbe'chugh
> SuvwI' qa' taH may'.
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> Klingon Warrior
> taHjaj wo'!
> Darren M. Slade
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