tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 14 10:07:44 1996
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Re: The Life of a Klingon
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- Subject: Re: The Life of a Klingon
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:05:43 +0200
>I am still a begining student of tlhIngan Hol, so I will post in DivI-Hol.
> what kind of instruments do they play?
A form of piano/organ, don't know it's name.
Their history?
Goto Ftp://ftp.kli.org/pub/
>The amount of airable land on their homeworld-or
>do they farm at all?
Klingons are carnivours, so they don't farm.
>Sports-besides Curse Warfare?
Yes, head butting, but don't forget the Klingon Empire works on the bases of
full battle plan,(They're ready at any time to fight a war!)
>Do Klingon women wear cosmetics?
>Enter weight loss programs?
>Are there any Klingon rock stars?
>Stand-up comics?
All Klingons tell jokes.
>Of course, I am simply looking into what Klingon life would be like...I
>belive that to learn the language of such a magnificent race, it is also
>important to study their culture, which I think was woefully disreguarded by
>the Federation.
>Why is it that whenever (and there were several occassions) a Klingon
>dignitary beamed aboard the Enterprise, no attempts were made by the capatin
>(or crew) to learn tlhIngan Hol-other than a few choice curses, to provide
>sufficient Klingon cuisine, or to provide a Klingon room?
Riker and Picard both know tlhIngan Hol, but it's the universal translator
in you TV working again. The replicators supply only dead ghagh, Riker said
this, but the blood pie is, surposedly, very good. With a bed made out of
the same matitial as the floor?
>I mean, one would
>think that having Klingon allies would have been an important enough event
>to have made certain allowances for visiting Klingons...as opposed to
>everyone acting so shocked at Worf's brother's table manners.
>
>Any comments are welcome-yes I do have a life and realize I am not ACTUALLY
>Klingon...but it is the principle of the thing.
I understand what you mean and agree, partly.
Qapla'
Daniel