tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 30 17:16:33 2008
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Re: No lut tlhaQ, Eh?
On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. wrote:
> Dear [email protected],
>
> Oh, I get it, you think Klingons don't do humor.
bImuj. bIyajbe'. tlhIngan tIgh vISaHbe'. ngeb chaH 'ej SeHchu'
qonwI'pu'chaj. 'ach ghojwI'pu' chu' vISaHbej. chaH vIja'choHDI',
jISaHnIS. jIqIDnISbe'. towIj Da'ommo', chaq vIchoHnIS. chaq ghu'
vIDub qajangbe'choHchugh.
No, you don't get it.
First, I don't care what Klingons do or do not do; they are fictional
characters and thus do whatever their authors want them to do.
Second, I think newly arrived students should be treated seriously,
not flippantly.
Since you're resisting that approach, however, I am reconsidering
it. Perhaps it would be best if I did not answer you at all.
> Let me hope you are not
> involved in restoring any lut tlhaQ, such as The Confusion Is Great
> Because of Nothing. Methinks that were you in that play you
> would be
> confused.
bImujqa'. wa'maH wa' ben muchvetlh 'ay' wImuch Qov jIH je. mIS
jIHbe'. be'ne'DIq jIH ('ej be'terIS ghaH).
Youthinks wrong. When Qov and I presented an excerpt from that play
(good grief, can it have been eleven years ago?), I was be'ne'DIq to
her be'terIS.
> As the third or fourth email I just got from Steven Boozer is signed
> Voragh Ca Non The Master of the Klingons, let me ask you what that
> means,
> if it does not mean the Master of the Klingons.
You are *still* misreading it! Look at it again. It says "Voragh",
followed on the next line by "Ca'Non Master of the Klingons". It
means what it says. What is says is not the same thing as what you
think it says.
-- ghunchu'wI'