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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Bad Klingon in Trek novels (and the like)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Klingonteacher)
Mon Sep 3 07:52:41 2012
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:52:20 +0200
From: Klingonteacher <levinius@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C36BD6@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Hi there, you angry arse!
;-) I'm just kidding, of course, and I understand your anger.
I also feel like I'm in the "duty" of teaching good Klingon, and I keep =
correcting people about anything what's wrong, especially with klingon. =
But it's really hard in a chat/twitter-mode, because you cannot really =
"talk" to convince people.
I would have done exactly the same you did, but I would have asked for a =
proof instead of just insisting that you're right.
A german proverb says "Der Kl=FCgere gibt nach", which suggests to smart =
people to back off and stop arguing with stupid people. The problem is =
otoh, if the smart stop arguing, the stupid will rule te world. :-)
Am 11.08.2012 00:31, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> You can see the full fall-out here, if you're interested:
> http://people.kth.se/~felixm/KlingonBible2.png
Yes, intersting, indeed :-)
> 2) To ask the question: When is it worth pointing out misunderstandings a=
bout Klingon?
Make a difference between who says it where. Don't bother about some =
teenager talking nonsense at youtube, but I would stand up and fight to =
death if there is a linguistics professor at harvard university teaching =
wrong Klingon (!) :-D
> ...and 3) To ask the more personal question: WAS I being an arse?
No, but he was just annoyed by you and maybe even embarassed that there =
was somebody who did know the truth, while he thought he knew something =
"really cool" to show to his friends!
It's really parallel to the 200 words for snow story whre some stupid =
annoying nitpicker jumps in and says "no, that's wrong". Do you know =
Sheldon Cooper?? ;-)
Greetings,
Lieven.
-- =
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
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