[84553] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sangqar)
Wed Apr 30 18:28:05 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:26:12 -0600
From: Sangqar <Sangqar@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <BD7D55FC-BFE8-410F-8F4B-03D20D60B87F@embarqmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> I would have dodged the bullet here and asked more directly:
>
> chay' Dochvam vIrur?
This implies that such a resemblance actually exists, or at least has
the potential to exist. In general, I am unwilling to concede such a
point without some kind of rationale behind it.
> That assumes that I'm not insulted by the comparison. If I were
> insulted, I wouldn't speak. I'd act.
>
> In other words, I don't care what you think. I care about whether or
> not you have observed a similarity between myself and this thing you
> have compared me to. If I don't understand the comparison, I'll ask
> you to explain the comparison. If I do understand the comparison, and
> I don't like it, I won't bother asking you about the comparison. I'll
> just teach you to be more polite in the future, or I'll eliminate the
> potential for future insults, depending on how insulted I feel.
I try not to take insult without cause. I tend not to assume the other
person intended to insult me. So I actually do care-not necessarily
about *what* the other person thinks, but about *why* they think that.
