[Tlhingan-hol] Lament (Re: A demonstration of aspect we can all follow)

[David Trimboli]

On 6/7/2012 4:08 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 6/7/12, David Trimboli and many others wrote:
>> lots of stuff
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> You know what this list is now? A starving man in a locked room.
> He's long past the stage of having any food to eat or even any body
> fat to burn, and now he's burning his own muscle. We have relatively
> little new Klingon to study (that we can totally trust), and as a
> result, we keep going back to the texts we do have and picking them
> apart. As I commented a while back during the debate about what
> {-Daq} really means (or maybe it was {ghaj}), if we work hard enough,
> we can make this language totally unusable. If anybody wonders why
> more newbies don't post here, I'd say that this constant tendency to
> rethink long-established patterns, this "everything you know is
> wrong" mindset, goes a long way towards explaining it.
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> I'm pretty much done with Klingon, and the way a once-firm concensus
> about how it operates has been eroded in the last few years is a
> large part of the reason why.

This amuses me, and sounds very much like religion. The traditional 
definition of Klingon?

Consensus? On this list? Are you kidding?!

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