tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 24 12:44:10 1995
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- From: [email protected] (Anthony Curran)
- Subject: Re: Web pages
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 14:44:10 -0600
>The Ballad is really good. I downloaded it and reposted it in
>our Star Trek discussion group, with your name prominently displayed. I
>haven't scrutinized the Klingon yet, but the English is impressive enough.
>I like the way you give the narrator a quirky personality (and a thing for
>Kira). And you weren't afraid to invent details, like the generator
>falling on Klank's head.
Thanks for your comments. I'm glad you got a chance to look it over, and
that you approve. The narrator's attraction for Kira is purely reflective
of my own. (Check out the Top Ten List).
>Has anyone analysed the Klingon for you?
Not really, but some recent comments relating to other work gives me a clue
as to why. Someone (and I can't remember who) made the comment that
analysing poetic pieces for grammatical content is difficult, since meter
and rhyme have to be taken into account. I can see the point. The only
reason I put the story into the form of a song is that my original
inspiration was a song (Klanks ditty). Otherwise, I am much more
comfortable with prose.
>Are you doing any more Klingon things? After a couple of years of thinking
>about Klingon it seems to me that the thing it's best suited for is
>stories about space missions.
I have one or two ideas that I am thinking about, but I haven't written
anything solid yet. You certainly have a point with the space missions
idea. Just trying to write about day to day life can be difficult. We
seem to have to coin too many words.
>I'm up to episode 045 in DRG, and plan to continue to
>065. In the latest one I featured three blues songs by Maltz: a Klingon
>version of Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues", and two you could call "No
>qagh Blues" and "Maltz's Blues". I'm working on a version of George
>Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows" for 046, called "When I'm Running
>Windows":
> The gifs I've found are quite a joy
> Natasha Yar is not a boy
> And neither is Deanna Troi
> When I'm running Windows.
>
I'm really looking forward to reading more DRG. You have a great talent
for humorous writing (and your tlhingan-Hol seems pretty good, as well).
>Anyway, best of luck for the New Year and Merry Christmas!
>
>Douglas
Happy Holidays!
Anthony Curran
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