tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 21 13:22:00 1997
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Re: qep'a' loSDIch
- From: "Dan Krivit" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: qep'a' loSDIch
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 16:17:00 -0400
I haven't a clue of what will occur, but it must be better than the other
stuff I do... so, why not attend?
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> From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: qep'a' loSDIch
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 3:55 PM
>
> & Lawrence wrote:
> & >The qep'a' loSDIch is only about six weeks away.
> & >If you're still waffling about whether or not to attend the qep'a'
> & >the best advice I can give you is to talk to some of the folks who
> & >have been there in years past.
>
> Qunchuy wrote:
> & My pre-emptive advice is that if you're even thinking about whether
> & you want to attend or not, YOU WANT TO ATTEND! Even if all you do is
> & marvel at the others having *real* spoken conversations in tlhIngan
> & Hol, you've got to be there.
>
> So Qov is going to say:
> Yeah, he's right. Until you've felt it, you don't know the emotional
> value of being in a room full of people who not tolerate but
> genuinely appreciate the work you've put into learning tlhIngan Hol.
> So here I go again crossing three time zones and an international
> border so I can headbutt everyone, trade horrible puns and biting
> insults, eat with my hands in public, scream "tlhIngan maH!" and hear
> it echoed by a crowd of tlhIngan warriors, get laughed at for finding
> uses for words no one else bothered to memorize, get laughed at again
> when I put the wrong prefixes on them, and have a screamingly good
> time with a bunch of truly interesting people.
>
> And I have a roommate already. Pity her. :)
>
> -Qov