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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 6 18:50:22 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Randy Kloko <rkk@mail.lib.duke.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 93 14:06:26 EST
If the rules are to write in English and Klingon, fine.
It's your bat and ball, and that's the way we'll play it.
On the other hand, part of the raison d'etre of a Klingon
language group should be to foster a more MATURE attitude
towards the truly alien and enigmatic. Trying to hide
under the aegis of being "just a student of Klingon"
is escapism. You can't always choose the alien you'd like
to encounter. C'est la vie.
Face it: Klingon is a Rohrschach blot of a language. It's
just as fascinating for it's deficiencies as its virtues,
and if you stare at it long enough, you're going start
finding all kinds of things about language, the world, and
your relationship to them. That's because the human mind
will try to make order out of anything that suggests the
merest semblance of a pattern.
If you're staring at it with a bunch of other people, that's
likely to amount to a considerable store of imagination and
creativity. Provided you don't go and hide behind your
delete key.
Kloko-vo'.
