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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Spoils of war
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Fri Sep 15 06:32:20 2017
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:40:38 -0400
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On 9/14/2017 11:27 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com
> <mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Are you serious ? Do you really expect this kind of arguments to
> be taken seriously ?
>
>
> If you're going to be "in-character" and treat Klingon culture as if
> it's a real thing, then you also have to treat the Klingon language as
> something we only know about from the incomplete information told to
> us by a single grouchy Klingon.
>
> It's one thing to wonder in-character why no one's ever asked Maltz
> about spoils or why Maltz has never brought them up, but acting like
> there is some major deficiency in the depiction of Klingon culture
> simply because Marc Okrand hasn't worked his way through every entry
> in Merriam-Webster strikes me as incredibly stupid.
You have to learn to speak mayqel-ese. I took his initial post to mean,
not "Klingon culture and language is stupid because they don't have a
word for /spoils,/" but "Klingons obviously have to have a word for
/spoils,/ don't they?"
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/14/2017 11:27 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAG84SOsjv1zKx93pU5yYqH2u_F6bMdbCh4Kr-c+QVmkxOTNZ3g@mail.gmail.com">On
Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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<div dir="auto">Are you serious ? Do you really expect this
kind of arguments to be taken seriously ?<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">If you're going to be "in-character"
and treat Klingon culture as if it's a real thing, then you
also have to treat the Klingon language as something we only
know about from the incomplete information told to us by a
single grouchy Klingon.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">It's one thing to wonder in-character
why no one's ever asked Maltz about spoils or why Maltz has
never brought them up, but acting like there is some major
deficiency in the depiction of Klingon culture simply because
Marc Okrand hasn't worked his way through every entry in
Merriam-Webster strikes me as incredibly stupid. </div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>You have to learn to speak mayqel-ese. I took his initial post to
mean, not "Klingon culture and language is stupid because they
don't have a word for <i>spoils,</i>" but "Klingons obviously
have to have a word for <i>spoils,</i> don't they?"<br>
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