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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Lament (Re: A demonstration of aspect we can all

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Jun 7 16:31:58 2012

Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:31:42 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <1339099729.95084.YahooMailClassic@web82606.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 6/7/2012 4:08 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
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>
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> --- On Thu, 6/7/12, David Trimboli and many others wrote:
>> lots of stuff
>
> You know what this list is now? A starving man in a locked room.
> He's long past the stage of having any food to eat or even any body
> fat to burn, and now he's burning his own muscle. We have relatively
> little new Klingon to study (that we can totally trust), and as a
> result, we keep going back to the texts we do have and picking them
> apart. As I commented a while back during the debate about what
> {-Daq} really means (or maybe it was {ghaj}), if we work hard enough,
> we can make this language totally unusable. If anybody wonders why
> more newbies don't post here, I'd say that this constant tendency to
> rethink long-established patterns, this "everything you know is
> wrong" mindset, goes a long way towards explaining it.
>
> I'm pretty much done with Klingon, and the way a once-firm concensus
> about how it operates has been eroded in the last few years is a
> large part of the reason why.

This amuses me, and sounds very much like religion. The traditional 
definition of Klingon?

Consensus? On this list? Are you kidding?!

-- 
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/

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