tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 18 21:19:38 2002
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RE: QeD De'wI' ngermey
- From: "Lee Herndon" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: QeD De'wI' ngermey
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:21:59 -0600
ghItlh DloraH:
>>.. Indeed, I still feel that Okrand
>>might believe we're all a bunch of loonies that he humors with the
>>occasional new word. I seriously doubt he's developing it actively.
>I have wondered about this a few times.
Oddly, I hadn't really thought about this before. I suppose I half-believe
myself that the fans who appear at cons _dressed_ like Klingons, with makeup
and masks, and seem to half-believe they _are_ Klingons, are a bit loony.
(Though I admit to a secret desire to show up as a Vulcan, or better a Borg;
I just don't have the build for a Klingon.)
My rationale behind learning Klingon is simply that I've been out of
graduate school for two years trying to pay off some angry student-loan
organizations while the knowledge behind my Biology B.S. grows more out of
date and my brain rusts while I labor in menial jobs. It's purely a
question of intellectual stimulation. Nonetheless I admit that I become
frustrated when I think of some simple, useful, everyday sentence like "How
fast will it go?" and find that there's no idiomatic way of saying it.
--maQ
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