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Re: use and purpose of this list.

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

In a message dated 2004-07-26 11:36:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Hol chenmoHbe'bogh nuv DamaS'a'?
> vaj tlhIngan Hol yIHaDQo'.  Hol ghojlI'bogh ghu Danej'a'?  vaj tlhIngan Hol
> yIbuSQo'.  mu'mey Da'ogh SoH DaneH'a'?  vaj tlhIngan Hol yIqalmoHQo'.
> 
QulmeH chovnatlh neH 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e' 'e' DaHar'a'?  QulmeH Qa'Hom

> moj Sajmaj 'e' yIqapQo' jay'.
> 
> >Some of what I post to the list is simply to get my own
> >findings "out there", so I and others don't keep re-inventing the wheel.
> 
> not rutlhqoqvam DalIghlaw'.  qatlh potlh rutlh 'oghbogh jatlhbe'wI'?  chaq
> rutlh bey Doj DachenmoH, 'ach lI'be' vIHbe'taHbogh rutlh.
> 
> >Actually being able to speak Klingon is not my main reason for studying it,
> 
> qechvam yIqawqu'...
> 
> >although I'm getting better at it.  But it's just one of the languages I'm
> >interested in right now.  Comparing and contrasting languages is the
> >essence of
> >linguistics.  So I'm puzzled by others' reluctance, even hostility, to
> >doing it
> >with Klingon.
> 
> bIjatlh 'e' DaHechbe'. 'ej nIqeHmo' jatlhwI' bImIS'a'?  yIQubchoH!
> 
> Would you like to know what I think the real problem is?  It's that you
> keep comparing and contrasting Klingon with other languages, with no
> obvious reason except to point out how Klingon is somehow weak, incomplete,
> or otherwise inferior.  When you ask questions, you dismiss the answers you
> don't like.  And you expect those making a serious effort to become fluent
> in Klingon to embrace your repeated put-downs?  wejpuH.
> 
> tlhIngan Hol Dajatlhqu'Qo'chugh...vaj bIjatlh 'e' yImev.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>

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