tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 07 13:20:58 1996
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Re: Why bother with pong?
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Why bother with pong?
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 13:19:32 -0800
At 11:44 06/12/96 -0800, ~mark wrote:
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}I recently was thinking back to my own usage, and I realize that I
}*have* said "*Mark Shoulson* jIH" on occasion. Not in order to inform
}someone of my name, but on the phone, when I called someone who knows me
}already (by name if not voice), so they knew who called. I wonder if that
}is different from giving someone your name, and if I can logically support
}it for this purpose but not for naming. Or if I should drop it
}altogether. Just something I realized about my own past usage.
To identify myself on the telephone I think I say "jatlh Qov." I said "Qov
jIH" when I met people at qep'a', but that *did* mean "I'm the Qov," as in
"I'm the Qov whose been pestering you on the MUSH all these weeks." In pure
introductions I tap myself on the chest and say "Qov." Efficient, to the
point, and always understood, even when the person I'm meeting speaks no
Klingon.
I think this is a situation where, for all we know, there is a formulaic
introduction idiom, like "choqaDmeH DuHoH Qov." This is a matter of culture,
not grammar and no extrapolation from the dictionary will give us the
answer. Maybe we're all wrong. Maybe we're all right for different
situations. Given the number of ways there are of introducing oneself in
English alone, I'm not going to reject any intelligible introduction.
tlhIngan Hol jatlhwI' vIqIHchugh jIbepbe'bej jay'.
DaH <jIlIH'egh: Qov> vImaS jIH.
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