tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 24 01:40:44 1998
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Baby Talk
- From: [email protected] (wIghbe')
- Subject: Baby Talk
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 03:40:39 -0600 (CST)
For the past year I have been speaking tlhIngan Hol to my infant
granddaughter, vemram (Michaela) in the hopes that she will begin to pick
up enough of the sounds early to become an active SuvwI' like her SoSnI'
and vavnI'. As opposed to her Ferengi parents (sigh).
So the other evening, I was at her house and her father was making silly
sounds to her and she was repeating them. He would say, "da da da da" and
she was say it back. He would say, "go go go go" and she was copy it. So
I thought, "Hey I will throw in one of the common Klingon sounds and see if
she has been learning the things I have been trying to teach her!" So I
looked her straight in the eye and said forcefully, "Qo'!" She took me
absolutely seriously and responded by a series of fake-sounding coughs.
How depressing. All this time I was speaking Klingon to her and she
thought I was coughing.
Somebody say something to cheer me up!
wIghbe'/SoSnI' [and still hoping for a new word from Dr. Okrand her grandchild]