[tlhIngan Hol] Spoils of war

[SuStel]

On 9/14/2017 11:27 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Are you serious ? Do you really expect this kind of arguments to
>     be taken seriously ?
>
>
> If you're going to be "in-character" and treat Klingon culture as if 
> it's a real thing, then you also have to treat the Klingon language as 
> something we only know about from the incomplete information told to 
> us by a single grouchy Klingon.
>
> It's one thing to wonder in-character why no one's ever asked Maltz 
> about spoils or why Maltz has never brought them up, but acting like 
> there is some major deficiency in the depiction of Klingon culture 
> simply because Marc Okrand hasn't worked his way through every entry 
> in Merriam-Webster strikes me as incredibly stupid.

You have to learn to speak mayqel-ese. I took his initial post to mean, 
not "Klingon culture and language is stupid because they don't have a 
word for /spoils,/" but "Klingons obviously have to have a word for 
/spoils,/ don't they?"

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SuStel
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