[Tlhingan-hol] Things missing

[Robyn Stewart]

jatlh qunnoQ HoD:

> How would you measure though how much [someone] likes [tlhngan Hol] ? how passionate he is about it ? how much he wants to learn it ? is there a test ? a way to find out ? 

That has been the test of time and dedication.  Actually speaks the language: committed and passionate.  Argues about the corners of it without actually speaking it: involved, but ...? Not everyone has the linguistic  talent or memory to learn the language to fluency, but the years and hours people put into promoting the language, making it accessible, coordinating projects, and running qep’a’mey or qepHommey show their passion.

I’m going to make an aside here because the rest of the list may not know that qunnoQ is working very hard on the language, already working on memorizing the prefix table, writing sentences, reading TKD and are striving for the next level in EVERY direction, not just asking the big but easy questions that newcomers ask. There’s a reflex on the list to say, with varying degrees of politeness, “shut up and learn the language before you question it.”  It’s because questions often come from people who haven’t taken the time to appreciate tlhIngan Hol, or to appreciate the fun of saying what needs to be said with the tools that are available.  

> Your knowledge is a part of you,and it cannot be separated from you. Ever. Furthermore education comes as an irreversible process which changes you -irreversebly too-. You can't unlearn what you have already learned.

There is a Klingonist who has had semi-permanent body modification to create forehead ridges.  It made me pose the question to myself, “why do I think that is more startling than the fact that I have permanently changed the INSIDE of my brain with this language?”  While many people ridicule us for learning Klingon, it’s the time spent or how they perceive our  priorities that they are mocking, not the fact that our brains are now different.  But I love it.  I love this language, and that’s why I’m working to ensure that there will continue to be people who speak it.  I am so delighted by the influx of new people onto this list and working through the online course, and I hope you are not discouraged by anything.

> so,because i love Klingon and because it is becoming/will eventually become one of the languages i speak,because it is becoming a part of myself i want/demand/accept 
> nothing else than for it to be perfect. Its as simple as that.

And that’s why we love you. 

As I said in another thread, Marc says he has it handled, and I’m not in any hurry to find out what his succession plan is. I imagine by then you’ll be an accomplished speaker, and will be part of that solution. vaj DaH yIghojqu’.

- Qov




 

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:27 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

On 10/29/2015 2:16 AM, Tim Stoffel wrote:

Considering what the Klingon language community has accomplished over
the years, it would be a shame to think that the end of Marc Okrand
(which I hope is no time soon!) could be the end of the Klingon
language.

We need a mechanism to keep the language alive.


Such a mechanism can be dreamed up at such time as Okrand leaves us or decides not to do Klingon anymore. Why try to impose it now? The language won't suddenly evaporate when he's gone.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name



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