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Re: qep'a' highlights

toH.  lugh Hoch. 'e' vIHarqu'

Well.  Everyone is right.  I really believe it.

Dave Schaefer is right when he reminds the list of the mission of the KLI, and 
the obvious correctness of tantalizing KLI chu'wI'pu' (as well as potential 
members) with tales of the wild linguistic orgies that routinely took place at 
the qep'a'.

Alan Anderson is right when he reminds us that not everything he posts to the 
list is intended for beginners.  He is entitled to posts when he's not wearing 
his BG hat.  

There is a growing feeling of elistism on the list, one which threatens (some 
might say has already succeeded in) polarizing us into two camps.  While I 
cannot dispute the charge of elistism, I would like to point out that those who 
possess the greater skills in Klingon are not trying to exclude those who do 
not, but rather are eager to bring them up to the higher level.

Everyone on this list started out at the bottom (with the possible exception of 
Krankor who was born speaking Klingon), and some have moved faster than others 
with the language or simply been at it longer.  If your command of the language 
is not to the level that you'd like it to be, rather than looking upon the more 
fluent language users as snobs see them as an inspiration and as affirmations 
that it can indeed be done.

Meanwhile, back to the subject line of this post:

I'd like to encourage the 30+ attendees of the qep'a' to post to the list some 
of their favorite "highlights" from the qep'a'.  If you've already done so in 
Klingon, great, thanks, provide a translation if you like or not.  But there 
were plenty of beginners and advanced beginners at the qep'a' who are probably a
bit too intimidated to post a lengthy report in Klingon (gee, I wonder why), and
we haven't seen *their* highlights in English yet either.

My highlight?  So much of it is a blur to me now because I spent too much time 
dashing around making the trains run on time.  But for me the best part of the 
qep'a' was meeting so many people, so many new faces, connecting with people I 
have known only as posters from the mailing list or just names on a renewal 
form.

Lawrence


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