[Tlhingan-hol] How many grammarians ?

[qunnoQ HoD]

> He was the first human to speak Klingon. He did so before Okrand could
speak it.

how is this possible ? I always thought Okrand has/had the maximum skill in
klingon (written and conversational) anyone could ever achieve.. After all
-by definition- every klingonist out there, from beginner to grammarian, is
Okrand's student.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> ghItlhpu' be''etlh, jatlh:
> > Who would be considered reasonable candidates?  The list of speakers
> > I would consider to be at a strong intermediate level (from interactions
> > at qep'a', not particularly from the list) would be qurgh, 'arHa',
> janSIy,
> > and me, and maybe neb'a'.
>
> 'Iv neb'a''e'? pongvetlh vIghovbe'.
>
> taH:
> > Is that the level of proficiency that would be appropriate?
>
> I feel a little uncomfortable judging proficiency levels of active
> speakers in a public forum, so I'll respond to you off-list on this.
>
> taH:
> > I arrived on the list about when tereS was appointed BG, so I haven't
> > really seen the role in action, given the paucity of beginners at the
> time,
> > and, except for janSIy, I think the others I mentioned arrived on scene
> > later than I did, so I don't know if people understand if it would be
> > suitable for them to volunteer, or what exactly they would be
> > volunteering for.
>
> An unfortunate consequence of not having a BG for so long. Part of the
> BG's role was to conduct a handover of sorts to their successor. When I
> went through, this involved the BG-elect writing responses to a couple of
> beginners' posts and sending them first to the incumbent BG off-list, so
> that the incumbent BG could look at them and give the BG-elect advice as to
> how well they explained their corrections and so forth, but more
> importantly, advice as to how their tone would come across to a beginning
> learner. I really don't have the spoons at the moment to take on the BG
> role myself, but would certainly be happy to play that mentoring role.
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
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