tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 27 07:20:24 1997
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Learning Klingon
- From: [email protected] (Bridgewater, Carolyn)
- Subject: Learning Klingon
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 97 09:12:22 PDT
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My name is Nicholas James Bridgewater. My Klingon name is GhItlh (based on
the Klingon word ghItlh `meaning write'.) I believe I am bringing up an
important issue. There are no real Klingons!!!
What is a Klingon? A Klingon is either of the following, 1. someone born
on Kronos, 2. someone born in the Klingon Empire, 3. someone with a Klingon
father and mother. No one follows any of these traits, save the actors on
TV.
One way to learn a language is to live with the natives, but for learning
Klingon, THERE ARE NO NATIVES. The only other way is probably years of hard
work memorizing every word and grammatical rule in a language. Sure, some
people can say they know tlhIngan Hol. But can they speak it fluently. This
is troubling to me. I have been studying Klingon for some time now and I
fear I'll never really know it. MO has written three books and made three
tapes, but they are still not sufficient for learning the language.
I have heard that you can remember something after hearing 12 times better
than seeing something 50. If only MO expanded his audio series. I have
heard that Marc Okrand was interviewed for HolQeD, but how can the average
Klingon shmoe contact him?
Another thing that puzzles me, is that Klingon has no word for WIZARD,
WITCH, or WARLOCK. Yet they must have used some word in the Klingon
translation of Hamlet.
Qapla'. Hope my message isn't too long, or too puzzling.
Bridgewater
email: [email protected]
hp: 315-597-6280