tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 11 08:04:42 1997
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Re: your mail
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: your mail
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:04:34 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Qov" at Sep 10, 97 08:33:22 pm
According to Qov:
>
> charghwI' wrote:
> > By the way, that's a quote from WAAAAY back there. Old posts
> > never die. They just wait to be discussed AGAIN.
>
> That's not WAAAAY back. THIS is WAAAAY back:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 93 15:25:51 EDT charghwI' wrote:
> >On Jul 1, 1993 11:55am, [email protected] wrote:
> >> I'm curious... how many people do you think that there are,
> >> world wide, who are capable of:
> >>
> >> 1) Holding a five minute conversation in Klingon?
> >
> >Very few. Probably less than 6.
Yep. Even with that, I was allowing the possibility of a few
who had never heard of KLI. I knew of two then: ~mark and
Krankor. I did not count myself in at that point.
> Hmm. Where are we four years later? The majority at qep'a' loSDIch could
> participate in a five minute conversation. For some there would be a lot of
> nodding and smiling, but following and making the occasional comment.
>
> If the conversation was slow, on a restricted topic and allowed a fair
> amount of repetition could we count thirty or forty who could do it? Am I
> wildly optimistic or short?
Short? At least one newspaper article described you as
amazonian at least six feet tall. {{:)>
> Does it count if the other person spends four of
> the five minutes looking up things in the dictionary? :)
I think forty is a safe number, since very few who attended
could not be described as verging on conversational, and there
were quite a few, like Guido, Holtej, Nick, Magic, ... (ratz!
My name thing is failing again. Our red-headed, Texan former BG
... something-targh) who would definitely qualify, but could
not be there.
> Qov ([email protected])
> Beginners' Grammarian
charghwI'