tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 26 12:19:27 2010
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Re: jatlhwI'pu Holtejpu' je
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Christopher Doty <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Again, this says more about you than it does about any of these
> "linguists."
> I'm not sure if you're aware, but there are something like 6,000 actual,
> real, natural languages in the world, and every single one of them is
> infinitely cooler and more subtle than Klingon; linguists get no cred from
> academia for being interested in Klingon. If you think that linguists come
> here looking for acceptance from THIS group, the majority of whom (but
> certainly not all) seem to be arrogant pricks who have accomplished nothing
> in their lives except managing to learn Klingon, you might want to take a
> look out the window once in a while; there is a much bigger world out
> there,
> and the KLI counts for exactly squat in it.
>
>
Thanks for insulting every person on this list in one go. That kind of
action doesn't engender compassion from anyone. While you may have an issue
with a few of the people on this list, please don't generalize to everyone.
I know quite a few people on this list and none of them, in the 15 years
I've been on this list, have ever acted like a "arrogant prick" to me.
The only arrogance I've seen is from newbies who think they already have a
mastery. When they get smacked down (as is the Klingon way) they get all
defensive and run around insulting everyone near them. I seen it happen many
many times over the years. I went through the first part myself (my first
post was a horrid translation of a scene from Hamlet which I thought was
wonderfully translated) but instead of trying to defend my Klingon I tried
to improve it.
qurgh