[85106] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: To the List Regiment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Tue Sep 30 16:26:59 2008
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <55175.99.161.1222666372.squirrel@www.christopherfulkerson.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:27 -0400
From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:32 AM, "Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D." <christopher@christopherfulkerson.com
> wrote:
> Dear Crunchy,
qatlh pongwIj DaghItlhHa'? chIch chotIch.
What's with the dig at my name?
> I thank you for your remarks, but I think some of them were a bit too
> sober for the situation.
naDev bIchu' 'ej naQHa' SovlIj. ghojwI' chu' ja'choHDI' ghojmoHwI',
reH SaghnIS.
You are new here. It is always appropriate to be serious when trying
to instruct a freshly-arrived student.
bIghoj DaneH qar'a?
Am I erring in my assumption that you wish to learn?
> I thought it was obvious I was joking in
> Klingon character with my challenge to the Master,
bIqID pagh bIqIDbe' 'e' vISaHbe'. ghaHvaD <pIn'a> ponglu'be'.
yajHa'ghachlIj yIlugmoH.
Joking or not, you continue to confuse what you think you read with
what he wrote. Voragh does not claim to be "the Master". Please review
my previous explanation.
> It seems to me that the behavior of Klingons is
> eminently susceptible to parody.
tlhIngan Hol Dalo'be'chugh, tlhIngan tIgh tIvaqqa'Qo'.
Parodying Klingon behavior is certainly not one of the valid purposes
of this group (unless, of course, you do it in Klingon, in which case
anything is a valid topic).
> On that point there does seem to have been some genuine bad manners
> among
> the reactions I have gotten.
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yIQIj. nuq Dumaw? qen bIDochpu' SoH neH 'e' vItu' jIH.
What specifically has you upset about the reactions? In this set of
messages, the rudeness *I* saw bore your signature.
-- ghunchu'wI'
