[Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz

Lieven Litaer lieven.litaer at web.de
Wed Feb 1 00:48:11 PST 2012


Am 31.01.2012 18:15, wrote Qov:
> I remember a young doctor in Leningrad telling me that, "In this
> kladbishche lie the cadavers of many important persons."
[...]
> Sure, try to pin down meanings, try to avoid using words where we're
> told they don't fit.
[...]
> One has no way of knowing these things.
 > Speak boldly and keep your betleH sharp.

Nice speech from Qov.

I have noticed that most people who talk "about" Klingon are those who 
do not speak or use it. Same at the qepHom: students are discussing 
about the question whether a zombie without a tongue is considered a 
living being capable of speech, but those students don't even know how 
to tell their name in Klingon.

At the qepHom I keep telling my students to use whatever they know. 
Don't bother too much about what a QemjIq is or not: just use the word. 
There won't be any life-threatening misunderstandings :-)

It's better to speak wrong Klingon than to speak nothing at all.

Lieven.
qepa.de



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