tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 09 23:25:24 1997
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Re: Suggestion for Lurkers
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for Lurkers
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 23:25:17 -0800
At 21:15 97-12-09 -0800, Worf wrote:
}>At 21:08 97-12-08 -0800, Worf wrote:
}>
}>}Here's my sentence... tlhIngan yaS 'ejyo' je jIH.
}>"I am a Klingon officer and Starfleet."
}>
}>I recommend you repeat the word {yaS}. {tlhIngan yaS 'ejyo' yaS je jIH} "I
}>am a Klingon officer and a Starfleet officer." You can say in English "I'm
}>Starfleet," but even in English it is a shortcut, and I'm not sure that
}>shortcut works in Klingon.
}
}You're the only one to reply to that, I think (I go through the list
}backwards, from most recent to least, so I wouldn't know if anyone posted
}before).
Probably they took it as a KLBC-type thing and left it alone.
}>I'll try to come up with a KLBC challenge that takes that time into account.
}>I hate looking things up, too.
}
}I suggest someone gives one sentence say weekly, then we can translate it
}and send back... anyone else agree? (Maybe it might get some lurkers to
}stop lurking and start *learning*...)
We'll do it. Subject heading will be KLBC: Short & Easy
I stopped doing them, because no one was showing up. If however you pick an
hour between 8h and 21h eastern time on a Sunday and e-mail me about it,
it'd be quite happy to turn up and teach.
}Well, I want to know the definition of "lurker" when (deleted the email...
}grr) it was said that 250-odd people out of 300 or so were lurkers...
I believe the definition is "have not posted since joining the list."
Qov [email protected]
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