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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 20 11:25:36 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: rrd@ulysses.att.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:13:03 EST
Subject: unsubscribe
Please unsubscribe me. My mail server is getting glutted with email from
your newsgroup. I have a casual interest in Klingon and thought I'd learn
a lot from this newsgroup. I also thought that it would be fun to witness
the evolution of a new language. However, I am getting dozens of email
messages per day, there are too many of them for me to read, much less
digest. I have read TKD and have listened to the tape, practiced
pronunciation and have done a little studying of the language, but frankly,
most of what I read on this net is over my head. It would help if a
subsidiary newsgroup were spun off, say klingon.casual, containing
only those messages suitable for us dilettantes, neophytes, etc.
I am also getting a little tired of seeing Mark Okrand and, lately, even
Michael Dorn getting criticized for this or that mistake. As the person
who recently wrote to defend Okrand stated, someone else could've done a
worse job. Also, Paramount could've taken the easy way out and just had Klingo
ns
speak gibberish. Recall Latka's language on _Taxi_ or Mork's Orkan, shudder.
One could also nitpick Star Trek's "scientific" explanations of things like
Warp drive or Psionic waves or Tachyonic emissions. I know that as a
physicist, I could. But the fact remains that they did a much better job
with this quasi-science than almost any other sci-fi TV show or movie. I give
them a lot of credit for trying to do a reasonable job, at least. Getting
to Dorn, he's an actor, not a linguist. He's done a good job of
portraying Worf and one could argue that he has probably spent more
time portraying a Klingon than just about all other actors combined.
Also, regarding Worf's pronunciation, he was raised by Terrans, wasn't he?
And Russians, at that. It's a wonder he doesn't speak English like
Chekhov.
jlwuQ
So long for now,
Ralph DeMarco
