tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 19 07:57:51 1994
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Re: no applause, just throw money
- From: HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: no applause, just throw money
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 19:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "William H. Martin" at Aug 10, 94 12:21:40 pm
charghwI'vo':
> > let me struggle to clarify my views. i wish for everyone to
> > write Klingon naturally. the whole anti{-Daq} business came from
> > GlenProechel, in whose InterstellarLanguageSchool Primer Textbook he stated
> > that {ghoS} is always intransitive. he said this in a book for teaching the
> > language, for cryin out loud. it got me riled up. i apologize.
>
> Any time you wish to express frustration with Glen Proechel,
> you are quite likely to find a lot of empathy on this list. IMO
> Glen is misguided. He wishes to transform his imperfect skill
> at speaking Klingon into personal profit and a vehicle for the
> proselytizm of Christianity. He's a proselytute. {{:)> He is
> wrong about {ghoS}, wrong about the free use of verbs as nouns
No, he is quite right about <ghoS>... at least, the bit about not having
to use -Daq with it.
It's right there in the KD, page 28, first paragraph.
Or is this a new thing about what's-his-face (I can never get my names
straight until I have a personaltiy or a face to go with them, and
even then, I can screw up...) and <ghoS> you are talking about?
> > i think i'll just slink away for a few days
> > here. now charghwI', being the true proud Klingon that he most certainly is,
> > will probably jump all over my sorry self for being such a HemHa'wI'.
>
> Good prediction.
I also have to agree with cw here... but he said everything MUCH better
than I ever could, so I will just sit back, and add my 'Yeah! What *he*
said!'s in...
--tQ
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