tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 16 10:00:14 1999
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Re: We did Hamlet at I-Con
David Trimboli wrote:
> Greetings! I just wanted to let everyone know that our performance at
> Hamlet was short, but a success. We did two scenes: "Alas, poor Yorik" (or,
> {Do'Ha' yorIq}), and the fight scene at the end. We had a nice roomful of
> people and two recordings were made (I'm trying to get my hands on one, the
> other might become available through Infinite Possibilities
> (www.iconsf.org/ip). I don't know any more than that so far.
>
> I also got interviewed by someone from Newsday, and I got two paragraphs in
> the Saturday and Sunday editions! The relevant section, from the article
> "Convention Is Out Of This World," by Katie Thomas, went like this (errors
> included):
>
> ---
> Next door to the dealers room, Huntington resident David Trimboli was
> reciting a line from Hamlet. "taH pagh taHbe," he said. "DaH mu'tlheghvam
> vIqeln IS." Loosely translated from the Klingon, Trimboli said, that means:
> "To be or not to be. That is the question."
>
> Trimboli, 26, a sales clerk, was minding the table for the Klingon Language
> Institute, a Flourtown, Pa.-based non-profit organization "dedicated to
> studying the Klingon language and providing a common forum for its
> speakers."
> ---
>
> Finally, I got lots of KLI flyers out, and managed to get a few players to
> pronounce, if not speak, Klingon.
Well, this is good news! Nice job!
>
>
> It was a good convention. If you were there, and are checking out the
> mailing list, let us know! I'd love to get a qepHom together if I knew
> people were going to come!
Where are you from? PA by chance?
K'ryntes
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